Run Free In The Sun...
Flying again, through the air, five miles high...
With a whole four and a half hours ahead...
I love this time so much... Between worlds...
Life between lives...
Each new place we land, is like a new life... Since we left the UK, just one month ago, we have lived in Gozo with Jamie, Pru and Jane and then Malta with Malcolm and now we are flying away from Cyprus, where we were mainly with Deryck, to live in England for a while...
This morning I set off to run along the coastal path, and I met the Chippenham harriers crowd who came to Paphos to run in the races too - it was fun to run with them for awhile and chat...
I have also loved re-connecting with Liz, their group leader, who I met here four years ago...
We connected then and the connection remains - it doesn't need many words...
Liz and I were in the same quiz team at Malcolm's famous 'after race party', Deryck was in our gang too - We chose 'Deryck's Darlings' for our team name, and we won... I announced at the beginning of proceedings, 'I reckon we are the winning team'!
We were, our prize a pair of green 'Running Crazy' laces each...
Race day dawned bright and still after a windy stormy day the day before...
Anadi and I had swum in the wild waves, influenced and inspired by seeing the locals clambering down the steps for 'business as usual' early in the morning...
But on Sunday it was already hot at 8am, the air still, as we made our way to the race start...
I love the atmosphere on race day...
We had stood on our balcony at 6.30am and seen Malcolm driving off with the Marathon runners, taking them to Aphrodite's rock for their race start at 7.30...
I ran to the fort to warm up, and we watched the half marathon leave at 8.25, at 8,30 the 5k runners sped past us, and then at 8.40, the 'starter master' counted us down with 15 seconds to go and we were off...
I had chosen to run without GoPro and so without the GPS/ HR/ Pace of the Tom Tom to let me know what was happening...
I ran free, I just ran along the road as fast as I could.
I felt flowing, the sun shone...
It was an 'out and back' course... Up the road we ran, around a 'roundabout' and back home on the other side...
Anadi and I waved as we passed by one another...
I finished 29th overall in the whole field, which was about 300 strong, and I was the 2nd female finisher...
I ran 44.47 - that was what came out of my 'running body', and in this new phase in my new running life, I am happy with whatever comes out; unlike my younger years when a harsh critic lived within me... I am happy because it is an expression of me in motion, my true essence...
And anyway the moment it is done, it is in the past...!
My intention is to give myself even more time to follow my hearts calling, to keep running all over the world, to run free in the sun... To meditate in the running step...
Knowing that I am consciousness and that my inner directive shapes my journey...
