The Olden Days...
Today has a Saturday feel to it…
I has felt like it all day long; I am on the terrace of our little house on the edge of the mountain and there is a hazy heat, slow, not much happening type of energy, a lazy Saturday afternoon...
It slightly disorientated me when I was speaking to my clients, positioning them in their week when I am two days ahead...
But otherwise I am liking the lazy, hazy day feel, stretching from afternoon to evening...
The Saturday feel may be because yesterday, Anadi finished the software he has been programming for the past four and a half months... And so last night we sat eating tapas and drinking honey rum (my cure!) looking back over the past few months…
'I remember the conversations in St Lucia between you, Ross and Richard' I said, 'all of you talking and planning together, and them giving you guidelines for your creation...'
And just recently Ross and Richard have been selling it before it was completely finished…!
Strangely the software is an 'Athlete management system', with the use of GPS, heart rate monitoring, and fitness testing…
The path opened of itself... Anadi's original platform was an online video streaming solution...
Two years ago he linked up with Richard who is now his sales manager. Richard took the original platform into sports clubs and schools… The Athlete management system, which encompases fitness tests and athlete profiles, has evolved from there…
As it has manifested I have often wondered at how did this happen?
I am now married to someone who has created a product which is ground breaking in the world I have inhabited forever…
A world I have seen change and develop massively from when I began running back in the 70’s, when the only gadget we used was a stop watch, and we didn’t even have one each, on a watch on our wrist…
Our coach stood at the side of the track holding one, and as we ran the repetitions he would shout the times out to us…
It was the same in races, all manually recorded....
I am part of history.
The olden days!
I am now wearing a HR monitor with GPS every day... This is so that Anadi can load it into his site and hey presto... There is an athlete in action...
The stats do show a rather slow athlete, with a high HR in these mountains... I am mindful of Nikos Kalofiris again saying 'count the hours, not the miles in the mountains...'
I ran for an hour and fifty three minutes today and only covered about 9 miles up in these mountains with steep climbs and thin air...!
I have taken, mid run, to running up and down the hills that join the two paths... In the absence of any form of planning, I can see that my body is responding well to simply running uphill.
I am in touch with my vulnerability and my strength here in the Alpujarras, both are tangible and exist within each other...
My body so affected by the pollen and the thin air; and yet noticebaly responding positively to the training...
A juxtapostion within my own being.