The Goal Has Presented Itself...
I am sitting in the sports bar at club la Santa...
And I am taken back fifteen years, to when I had made a commitment to myself to heal the chronic injury in my left side. With that goal in mind, I had booked a week here as part of my 'kick start' to running free again...
I had just met Ange, who had called me for some guidance in the March of 2000, and it was now the October ...
I had booked my time away with the idea I may find someone who wanted to come too! One day Ange and I were in Buxted park, stretching together after a walk...
'I'll come with you' she said....
We arrived on a coach, and it felt rather like we were entering a prison with the gates clanging shut behind us!
Once in the complex however, we found our way to where I am sitting now, and enjoyed a cappuccino by the sea together...
We were wandering back to our apartment when we heard the cries of the waiter, calling to us as he ran after us, waving some euros...
Ange had been in charge of the kitty and had inadvertently left a 60 euro tip!
I can remember us both being bent double with laughter, and it being agreed that from then on I was to be the 'kitty monitor'...!
That was November 2000...
A few months later in the January of 2001, continuing my 'return to running free' mission, I came back here with my goddaughter Freya who was sixteen at the time, now in her early thirties she is an awesome triathlete... She fell in love with a 25 year old triathlete while we were here, causing me some 'concern' in my godmotherly role!
I was last here two years ago with another goddaughter Pru, Ange's daughter...
We had a wonderful time despite me developing an infection in my finger on day two, through the window of a small cut...
The extent of travelling the infection had already done shocked the doctor... 'F**k...' He said looking at the red line in my arm...
The hefty antibiotics kicked in, but I was still laid pretty low... It meant I was the watcher of Pru's exercise rather than doing any myself...!
And now I am here again, as a kick start to my plan to train for the masters world championships in Australia next year...
When I booked us into Club la Santa, I hadn't planned the masters, but it seems there is a plan anyway...!
I have noticed it works this way... Keep clearing from the inside out and following your heart, your inner compass, even when it feels hard... You will start to notice there was a plan all along as you witness it unfolding in front of you like a special red carpet leading you to be your own VIP!
Training today has been fun...
Seven miles running easily around and about with Anadi, on the volcano black ground this morning.... Some time in the afternoon was spent in the gym after going on (another!) shopping spree for new shorts and a new swimming costume - black orange and pink!
And tonight I ran on the track...
Just six lengths of 100 metres - to stretch out and feel the running inside me...
It's where I began and where I love to be.
'Lets start at the very beginning
A very good place to start...'
And so I have started on a journey which is a year long... I knew the goal would eventually present itself...
And it has!
