<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Yoshizen&#039;s Blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[yoshizen]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/author/yoshizen/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[London Marathon]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/london-marathon-img_2633-2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="1092" data-permalink="https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/london-marathon/london-marathon-img_2633-2/" data-orig-file="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/london-marathon-img_2633-2.jpg" data-orig-size="1133,567" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Picasa 3.0&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1272191105&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="London Marathon-IMG_2633-2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/london-marathon-img_2633-2.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/london-marathon-img_2633-2.jpg?w=1024" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1092" title="London Marathon-IMG_2633-2" src="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/london-marathon-img_2633-2.jpg?w=720&#038;h=360" alt="" width="720" height="360" srcset="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/london-marathon-img_2633-2.jpg?w=720&amp;h=360 720w, https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/london-marathon-img_2633-2.jpg?w=150&amp;h=75 150w, https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/london-marathon-img_2633-2.jpg?w=300&amp;h=150 300w, https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/london-marathon-img_2633-2.jpg?w=768&amp;h=384 768w, https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/london-marathon-img_2633-2.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=512 1024w, https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/london-marathon-img_2633-2.jpg 1133w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /></a><strong>Last weekend I&#8217;ve joined an invigoration party for a runner of London Marathon</strong>, went to the</p>
<p>course side in  Dock Land in the morning, taking my camera with me.</p>
<p>Captured top runners, few Japanese runners and fun-runners. &#8212;&#8212;- then, I waited and waited for our</p>
<p>hero to come, while watching and clicking tens of thousands of the fun-runners photos for many hours.</p>
<p>The trouble was, I didn&#8217;t know what kind of guise he is wearing.    Apparently we had phone</p>
<p>communication with him which saying &#8221; I&#8217;ll be there in 10 minutes&#8221; again and again, always</p>
<p>another 10 minutes. ? ? ? &#8212;&#8212;- May be the time was kept stretching ahead of him as Einstein predicted.</p>
<p>This must be the revers of  Xenon&#8217;s  Paradox ( Arrow never able to hit Achilles)     😀</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>While waiting him, a pretty young lady spoke to me saying, she wants to see my dancing as she is a dancer</p>
<p>herself&#8212;&#8212; it seemed she hard the rumor from her friend who has seen my dancing in somewhere.</p>
<p>I told her to contact me through my blog, as this blog will come up on top of Google search, just by typing</p>
<p>&#8220;yoshizen&#8221;&#8212;&#8212;it must be the easiest way to remember. &#8212;&#8212;- May be I should have talked her more, and</p>
<p>pay more attention to the pretty lady though, I had a task to take picture of my friend running, who may</p>
<p>appear in any moment  (and needs to find him among the crowd, in distance)&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; m m m.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Zen works only to the task on front of the eyes or a thing in the hand.</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Other than that, which exist in the mind should be treated as a delusion or a noise.</strong></p>
<p>And I was in the fully minded state of capturing the runner&#8212;&#8212; not a young lady.  (How shame !   😀 )</p>
<p>Someone may say &#8221; What happened the Open-mind&#8221; or  &#8221; Just receive it, what so ever comes&#8212;&#8211; which</p>
<p>could be a crossing point of the Karma&#8221; &#8212;&#8212;- well  well  well,  I may say,  &#8221; As it&#8217;s happened when I was</p>
<p>in the fully minded state in photography, but as it happened in not very convenient time &#8212;&#8212; its mean</p>
<p>the Dharma was not very keen to this. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;(so-called not very promising encounter).<a href="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lmarathon-shj-dave-25-04-11.jpg"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="1097" data-permalink="https://yoshizen.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/london-marathon/lmarathon-shj-dave-25-04-11/" data-orig-file="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lmarathon-shj-dave-25-04-11.jpg" data-orig-size="5108,1229" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="L&#8217;Marathon-SHJ&#8217;-Dave-25-04-11" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lmarathon-shj-dave-25-04-11.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lmarathon-shj-dave-25-04-11.jpg?w=1024" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1097" title="L'Marathon-SHJ'-Dave-25-04-11" src="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lmarathon-shj-dave-25-04-11.jpg?w=720&#038;h=173" alt="" width="720" height="173" srcset="https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lmarathon-shj-dave-25-04-11.jpg?w=720&amp;h=173 720w, https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lmarathon-shj-dave-25-04-11.jpg?w=1440&amp;h=346 1440w, https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lmarathon-shj-dave-25-04-11.jpg?w=150&amp;h=36 150w, https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lmarathon-shj-dave-25-04-11.jpg?w=300&amp;h=72 300w, https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lmarathon-shj-dave-25-04-11.jpg?w=768&amp;h=185 768w, https://yoshizen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lmarathon-shj-dave-25-04-11.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=246 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /></a>Any how, at last our man David has come with 50 kg load of back-pack. (seems car battery etc was loaded)</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- <strong>Why needed to carry 50 kg on the back to run 26 miles marathon ? </strong></p>
<p><strong>No reason.  It&#8217;s like an engagement of 60th  Existentialist.  This is the Absurd theater.<br />
</strong></p>
<p>Most of the people just run and it is hard enough.  Though, in the same time &#8220;Why not with 50 kg on the back&#8221;</p>
<p>( heavier lord than the Army runners carrying).   Still, Just Do It.  Don&#8217;t think too much.</p>
<p>Without reason, someone may born in a remote corner of Africa, and may need to fetch 20 kg of water</p>
<p>every day while walking 10 miles bare foot.   This is the life there, the one has to accept, without choice.</p>
<p>So, we in the middle of  Stone age London, invent something out of any rationality, and do it as imperative.</p>
<p>( You know, 50 kg is pretty heavy and 26 miles is quite a distance &#8212;&#8212;&#8211; how nice  😀  )</p>
<p>This is why I like this group of people / Spacehijackers.</p>
<p>As soon as he appeared in sight, he was sieged by the members and bathed by beers, fed pizza &#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>and went on yet another 6 miles.  Good boy,  Good boy !</p>
<p>(Though, I haven&#8217;t heard the news, he got the finishing line. &#8212;&#8212;- Has anybody seen him collapsed</p>
<p>on the side of the road  ? )   Ha Ha Ha  😀                ( &#8212;&#8212;-&gt;   PS:  Please see the comment)</p>
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