Monday, August 28, 2006

DNF
Did not falter...

As opposed to my big sports guru DVLMN, I did not falter during my first real test of the season. I ended Brussels Half Marathon after 2 hours; 26 minutes and 44 seconds with two bleeding nipples. I was number 1467 with 1533 athletes making it to the Grand Place... The parcours was terrible: up and down and up again, and down and up and up and down and up and down. They tried to confuse us by mixing up the kilometersigns along the road and the ravitaillements were a joke: can you honestly tell me your able to drink ISOSTAR from a papercup running at, well, about 9+1/2 kph? Anyway, my leggs nearly fell off, but it was worth every inch of it...

Posted by Bietje at Monday, August 28, 2006 | | Comments

Monday, August 21, 2006

Dear Frustrated Superstar
Must be about me, you know I have it in me

Dear Frustrated Superstar,
your mother's waiting in the car
To whisk you off to your new premiere

And all the friends who knew your name
Are waiting, wondering what became
Of the girl that they once knew but never loved
They never loved.

So every city tells the lie
Of beggars, tramps and butterflies
Of all these things, then what am I?
A princess in a threadbare gown,
A gaudy, painted circus clown?
A child who lost her key and can't get home?

All the things I never was -
A traitor in the Western Wars
A girl who did it just because.
Do or die, or don't at all
Prepare to suffer for your call
Some things have to hurt or they're not true.
They can't be true

When you die, you'll wonder, "Was that it?"
Will you think of how you'd wished you lived?
Well, you're here now
Yes you're here now.
So I only want to be up there
With a hundred others, I don't care
'Cause I'm here now
Yes I'm here now.

Papers, books, philosophy
An envelopes eternity
I count each passing minute, hour, day.....
Wonder how I smile so well,
Wonder how they never tell
There's really no one living here at all.

So here's a line from God's own song
To comfort you when things go wrong
My children never visit me.
Go searching in the sky at night
They must be there to set alight
Their mothers aching heart is so unsure
I'm so unsure....

When you die, you'll wonder, "Was that it?"
Will you think of how you'd wished you lived?
Well, you're here now
Yes you're here now.
So I only want to be up there
With a hundred others, I don't care
'Cause I'm here now
Yes I'm here now.

Dear Frustrated Superstar,
I really hope you get that far
If not, I hope you live
I hope you live.

Posted by Bietje at Monday, August 21, 2006 | | Comments

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