"I didn't give any serious thought to running with the boys," Jones said.
While Michael Marissen's article provided challenging food for thought, the decision to run it on Easter morning, the holiest day of the Christian year, was unfortunate.
A long-hours culture kills creativity, not only artistic creativity, but the creativity of thought needed to run an organisation or venue.
However, the thought of having to run at high speed around a 26km circuit does take the edge off the prospect.
When I was in the darkest depths of my grief, when I considered taking my life on a daily basis, when I was terrified of driving alone for fear of giving into the intrusive thoughts telling me to run myself off the road, what I needed most was to know that I was not alone.
The train of thought to have to run up to the stumps like that and then have the athleticism to take the bails off was outstanding.
"When the ball dropped out of the sky my first thought was just to run," said the Welshman, who fielded Australia full-back Berrick Barnes' high kick, eluded the attempted tackles of Pat McCabe and O'Connor, then left Barnes for dead before evading the covering Will Genia.
Preying on people's minds in Juba is the thought that the government is about to run out of money – shutting down vital services in an already impoverished country.
"When the ball dropped out of the sky, my first thought was just to run," said North.
"I never set out with the thought that I'm going to run the same play for multiple seasons — plays don't work that way," she said.
