And So It Is...
I am sitting in the doorway of our room in the Imlil Lodge in the Atlas Mountains, I am wrapped up as the air is cool, but the sun is bright and it is hot on my legs...
We have just eaten a delicious lunch of salad, omelette and bread... Once we had finished our meal, we had the same conversation with Ismail as we had with Abdul almost three years ago...
He brought us a map and showed us the same route, a circuit from here, that should take around 3 - 4 hours to run.... On May 10th 2013 we had had headed off confidently, but we missed a turning and then 'found ourselves' completely lost in the mountains for twelve hours...
The experience of being lost together hi-lighted our bond, and showed us how we were together under pressure and in dangerous situations... I believe it had a lot to do with why on May 12th I committed to being a 'Girlfriend for a year'...
It is the challenges in life, that take down our barriers... Whether that be sleep deprivation or hormonal shifts or getting lost, or losing things, or anything at all not 'going to plan'... They can open the aperture for our unresolved stuff to arise, and so can be an opportunity for great healing...
But more often than not, things 'going wrong' are described as a 'nightmare' and 'getting stressed and uptight' over upsets or hold ups is deemed 'normal' and this means an opportunity for healing and clearing can be missed...
This morning...
We were up at 4am and left a very rainy cold England behind us on the 7.40am flight to Marrakech...
I love England and as a runner out in all elements, I have always been quite 'gung ho' about 'bad weather'... But now that I experience very little of the wet grey weather, I have a romantic view of it... This is not shared by Anadi!
But we flew through the sky for over three and a half hours today, and once more found the sun - which has been hidden behind mist and clouds - and until this recent visit to the UK, we had started to believe might be following us'.
We were alerted by the air stewards that Liz Hurley was flying on our plane, sitting at the front; we were right at the back... 'Go to the toilet at the front and take a look' the steward encouraged me... 'She's ever so beautiful'... I chose not to follow her suggestion :)
Anadi then alerted me to the fact that there was a man called Alex from 'Made in Chelsea' just two rows in front of us... Anadi had occasionally enjoyed the programme before he met me, when he was keen to manifest his own 'posh totty'!!
And so here we are, back in the mountains... The sun shining, the air still... The road climbing up, up, up or down, down, down alerting me to the fact that my intervals on Saturday morning are going to be hill reps...
And so it is...
