It was a sublimely glorious morning and I wandered outside into the sunlit garden with my quadspresso. The chairs were wet with dew so I sat in the tea-house and let my mind relax, a sensible thing to do having completed an intense nine-week project in Cambridge.
As I sat and looked, so thoughts from my subconscious bubbled to the surface in the form of new ideas about the garden. A second quadspresso helped! Kim was looking out at me from her office and could tell that light-bulbs were flashing from the way I was standing and staring.
In my mind I designed a hidden shed to free up the tea-house to relaxation and a new partition to create a Japanese stone garden… both were seeds (or subtle challenges) that Kim had planted a few weeks ago.
Sated, I capitalised on the reversal from this deeply thoughtful mode by stripping off and jumping on the running machine. I decided to run for 30 minutes and slowly ramped the speed up above 7mph.
The run was as perfect as the day outside and I swept along almost effortlessly, the only mild discomfort being the slowly rising temperature of my feet as they were toasted on the belt of the machine. I’m not really sure whether this is the belt heating up or the friction of my feet on the grippy surface but either way it was a little like walking on hot coals… I imagine!
After 30 minutes I had covered 3.55 miles (7.1 mph average) and still felt great… apart from my lightly grilled feet!
I stretched outside, showered, had breakfast and then got into prototype mode to explain to Kim what I had in mind.
Looking outside, as I sit here typing, the prototype is complete, whilst Kim is researching deliveries of stone and the prospect of two new stages to the autumn garden project is very exciting!
