March maundering.

[El Gordo]

Er, somewhat abstrusely, I was rather pleased to see Andy is getting stuck into writing his book. I'd had some of the wind knocked out of my sails today and needed to read Andy's bit of upbeat positiveness and optimism to get my head back into gear, especially on the subject of rapid perambulation.

I've edited that bit out again for the moment. It's tempting fate.

Like it usually is, it was only a small matter, but the timing and manner of its delivery was rather deflating. At work I happened to bump into the guy who after the Point to Pinnacle run last year convinced me to have a crack at it again this year, the idea being to form a corporate team of 4. Well great, that's been a major influencing factor in my training thus far this year. But blow me down if he didn't today calmly announce that not only is he not going to run it this year, but by the sounds of it, had never intended to! How things change in a few short weeks.

Sorry to hear that. Can you not take up the initiative yourself and send round a mail to see if you can find some others to form a team? It might shame the original guy into joining up again. Don't go off the idea of doing it though. It was a great adventure for all of us last time round.

Anyway, don't let it get you down. The journey has to have a few bumps and sharp turns. It isn't much of an achievement otherwise. Keep going.