2nd March Nemesis


In my running 'career' I have had a couple of people who I would often refer to as my nemesis. Back in the Poynton days it was Joseph, here in Nottingham it is Elizabeth. They are my nemesis because we run at roughly the same speed; I think the technical sporting term is 'glacial' and it was often neck and neck as to who would finish first. 

Sometimes it would be them, occasionally it would be me and if ever I saw them on the start line of a race, then one of my aims, apart from not dying durign the actual race, was always to try and be ahead of them by the time we reached the finish line. Whilst Mo Frarah ran to win gold medals, I simply ran to win the battle of the sloths.

All of which is a very round the house way of revealing that todays 10 minutes of aural bliss is the wonderful David Gray song called, yes you've guessed it, 'Nemesis'. Recorded in Zermatt, this a wonderfully stripped back and extended version of the song. Sit back and drift.


 

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