all I need

8:30 am and out for a run.

Four years ago this weekend, I was off to take part in a 10k. It was going to be my second ever race. And I'd been training fairly hard for it.

Fast forward to now and I am doing well to run once a week. Which is a mixture of time, impetus and energy.

I was pretty useless at PE when at school (no sympathy required). Then six years ago, something clicked. A good friend dragged me out with him for a few miles over lunchtimes and I got back on my bike.

But this morning, the first song that Nike Plus played for me to run to was Kevin Prosch's All I Need.

Near the end if my time at school, intact before I went to college, I went abroad for the first time. To the south of France with Neil, his Mum and Uncle. Near the end of the time away, I started to go out for a run. No idea what I was doing, but I enjoyed the time listening to my yellow, waterproof Sony Walkman.

The tape I ran to? That would be the live album, Kiss the Son. Including "All I Need".

So it was nice to go back 15 years and remember those first forays.

To think of how much if different from those days. Of how much I have changed. Of how grateful I am.

I was also struck of the truth of those lyrics.

"You are all we need to get by,
You are all we need to get high"