Running to time

About time I actually posted something about running on this running blog of mine. But if truth be told, I'm kind of bored. Track running has had this pointless feel recently of just going round and round in circles. Of course, that is actually all I'm doing. I go round and round and round....I've tried all kinds of permutations of lap accounting. Counting backwards from 30, counting in 5 sets of 6, 6 sets of 5, 3 sets of 10, et cetera, et cetera, yawn, et cetera.... Time for something different.

I bought a running watch in the USA. It was cheap and is technologically speaking a dinosaur. It can only measure my distance in miles, approximate calorie burn and numbers of steps taken. There are no satellites involved and I don't think anyone in the space station can watch my plod by tuning into Telstar (if it's even still in orbit).

But its supposed to give me an added oomph and spring to my step. For mathematical simplicity, I decided to run 5 miles and stop counting laps. Instead I have started to count songs. I should strive to run 2.5 laps per song: the permutations of which are far too boring to go into...but suffice to say this depends on how long the song is. I can run 5 laps to Faithless (the really famous song that everyone knows about not sleeping), but only 2 laps to The Clash's 'London Calling'. Clearly the hypothesis is that anything originally released on a 45rpm is going to be, on average, shorter. How old and boring am I?

Don't answer...more interestingly about wearing this watch is that it shows how lazy I am when I am NOT running. I don't do anything. I don't walk anywhere. I am truly sedentary. I know this because once I have run my five miles, I am lucky if I add another mile by just going about my daily business. If I go food shopping and vacuum the house, I can add 2 miles. But hardly anything. Quite a revelation for someone who feels constantly 'busy'. I actually do sweet FA...