Half of me ashes in the Buddhist way over here in J-Land.
The other half (the running legs) spread over a very special hill at Barnett's park in Belfast, N.Ireland.
Belfast City Council.Barnett Demesne.
20 Years ago, I spent many foggy, cold and damp Winter Tuesdays running up this hill to the white house at the top...the killer was that the hill got steeper at the top and there was a park seat invitingly in view...which we could never sit on because we were staggering back to the bottom before our coach would whistle for the next one to begin.
After 10 of those hill reps I would often wish for the earth to open up and swallow me, such was the pain and exhaustion.
I can still see our coach's glowing cigarette in my mind's eye as he 'encouraged' us "to get back down that d%mn hill because you won't get another chance to next week"
As for Music. Just two requests, played in this order:
1) The Brian Kennedy version of "You Raise Me Up" as played at the Soccer Star George Best's funeral:
You Raise Me Up - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2) Followed by a full volume with video(!) of Van Halen's "Right NOW!"
No time like the present.
I suspect I would be dancing in the wings...or is that "with wings" ;-)