One of my friends recently ran the London Marathon and said that it was enjoyable! I find this hard to believe as whereas I'm more than happy to dance for 4 hours, I can't think of much worse than running for 4 hours (or longer for a lot of people!)
It's not that I haven't tried running, I went through a very organised programme of running last summer with some of my old housemates, but the problem is that I find it very hard to pace myself, and so end up running too fast, then tiring myself out, and then resting for a minute or too, then back to running too fast. Whilst this wasn't too much of a problem in our local park, this would never work in a marathon situation as you'd have to mostly keep pace with the people around you.
Sewing on the other hand, is a completely different matter. I can quite happily sew methodically and at a constant pace for hours, usually until my sewing machine starts to smell a little like it's overheating, and then I can always switch machines to give one a break for a while.
Now I know that a full marathon of 26.2 miles is a very long way, but I'm sure I've easily sewn that distance at least once. This does sound like I'm being ridiculous and massively exaggerating, but if you actually stop and work out some things then it's not all that crazy.
For example, I'm currently working on a single bed size patchwork quilt, which measures 190cm x 90cm. In sewing 20 pieces of fabric together for the top, then bias binding stitched twice around the edge, then quilted in 7 strips, this amounts to at least 30 metres of sewing which is quite a lot of going through my little machine!
Although this seems like a lot, compared to my own patchwork quilt which has a lot more pieces of fabric and a lot more top stitching, this has more like 100m of stitching! Hence why it took me a month to make! Times that by 420 (amongst my many projects) and you get the 42000 metres which makes a full marathon! Maybe I should get my sewing machine a medal? Or sew one?
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