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Last Thursday I did my first school run for nearly six months as the kids went back to school.
Due to my two older boys having a different mum and living with her in Bakewell half the week, my school run is 51 miles.
5 times a week.
Plus dropping the other two in Macc several times.
You may now that on that route you go around Buxton, through Harper Hill.
And, before you hit the A515 there’s a stretch of road with a 30 then 40 then 50 limit.
It’s one of those where it’s very easy to start passing 30 before you’ve hit the 40 sign as it’s quite open and straight.
On Thursday morning we were behind van.
It was doing 27.
And it felt incredibly slow.
So much so that both boys looked up from what they were doing and asked why we were going so slow.
Which is daft really as we were only 10% under the speed limit.
And we were going at exactly the speed Usain Bolt tops out at.
When he does that it looks incredibly fast.
Watching his 2009 world record when he hits 27.8mph between metres 60 and 80 it looks like he’s jet propelled.
It’s all context though isn’t it?
When things are ‘different’ how they normally are, it seems slow or fast.
Light or heavy.
Easy or hard.
“Not a problem” to do or a “right pain”.
“Too time consuming” or “easy to fit in”.
Normal or weird.
Many members who start here soon realise that they’ve been limited in their breakfast options by what our society deems to be normal.
We have some variation on bacon and eggs or something grain based – cereal, toast, etc.
Maybe some fruit and / or yogurt.
And there’s nothing wrong with that if we can make the overall average of our week work.
But there are thousands of other options out there.
Stuff we may previously have said “that’s what I’d have for tea” or something similar.
Or maybe “I couldn’t face that in the morning” despite having actually tried a grand total of zero times.
My breakfast is very similar to my other two meals.
Sometimes left overs of one of them.
Considerably more filling for my calories than a bowl of cereal would be.
I can have probably five times the portion size that I could with a bowl of Frosties.
No chance I’m getting hungry before lunch and needing to snack.
Ultimately, you can have whatever you like for breakfast.
Or none.
And the same with any other meal.
It’s making the average of the day and week work that’s key.
But don’t feel limited to what’s seen as ‘normal’?
Because ‘normal’ is getting fatter and sicker and less happy with it’s body month on month and year on year (check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting if you’re ready to stop being ‘normal’).
Much love,
Jon ‘I once matched Usain Bolt’s time on a soft play centre time trial’ Hall
