With a little more flex in my schedule last week and rain forecast for Saturday and Sunday, I chose to spend a few sunny hours here and there working in the garden as a trainee stonemason in exchange for a few rainy hours working over the weekend.
This meant that that the stone garden and path has progressed well, to the point where I can now focus on other things.
Next on the schedule is a final version of the hastily thrown-together prototype panel that has been standing firm against the elements for a couple of weeks, and a hidden store to clear out the shed part of the tea-house.
The latter is to facilitate the latest idea, which is to create a frame in the tea-house to take a futon mattress… moving it closer to the original relaxation/contemplation purpose that I had in mind when I designed it five years ago.
I was up good and early this morning, making good use of the tea-house (and coffee) doing the readings that I had set for my students tomorrow. Fascinating stuff and all about self development and happiness.
Around half-ten I jumped on the machine, positively reinforcing the habit that I’ve created over the last few weeks.
I warmed up for a mile at 7mph and then started to increase the speed as per last week.
It seemed easier, so I pushed a little harder towards the end and completed 3.74 miles in the 30 minutes… a shade under 7.5mph average compared to 7.3mph last week.
I still don’t think I’ll be completing the marathon distance pier to pier run next month, but at least I’m running enough to have overcome the feeling of slothfulness! Although that could also be something to do with moving the pieces of a one-tonne stone jigsaw around!