{"id":1256,"date":"2010-03-22T09:55:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T09:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v6\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2011-06-06T19:22:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T19:22:58","slug":"inspiration-comes-at-odd-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/inspiration-comes-at-odd-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration comes at odd times&#8230;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was out running on Saturday, feeling quite smug with myself at about the 6 mile point of a 9 mile route, when I spotted an old man up ahead. I&#8217;m assuming he was old &#8211; he appeared to be in his late 70s at a guess &#8211; and very frail as he was walking with one of those zimmer frames with wheels on, <!--more-->taking only a couple of steps at a time before pausing for a \u00a0few seconds to catch his breath and then taking a couple of steps more. And I have to admit I felt slightly sorry for him.<\/p>\n<p>However, as I drew closer, I spotted hanging from the frame was what looked like a fairly new plastic bag from one of the shops I&#8217;d passed earlier, about a 1\/2-mile back, with a few items in. Making a few inferences from what I saw wasn&#8217;t too hard &#8211; I&#8217;m guessing of course but I reckon you&#8217;d come to a similar conclusion: this elderly, frail chap was making at least a mile round-trip to the local shops, despite it taking him several seconds for every couple of paces &#8211; much more than an hour at my rough calculations to get there and back.<\/p>\n<p>As I passed him, my pity turned into a deep respect and I felt humbled and inspired. His trip to the shops was probably more physically demanding for him and took more will-power and determination than my 9-mile run. Puts things into perspective eh..?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m running the Liverpool 1\/2-marathon this coming Sunday and every time I think I&#8217;m feeling the strain, or feeling a little too proud of myself, I&#8217;ll be thinking of that man&#8217;s shopping trip and just getting on with it!<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Steve\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/images\/mysig.gif\" alt=\"Steve\" width=\"86\" height=\"19\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out running on Saturday, feeling quite smug with myself at about the 6 mile point of a 9 mile route, when I spotted an old man up ahead. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,7],"tags":[22,24,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iceandlemon.com\/v7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}