You will do it Andy

[Nigel]

Andy
First, very sorry about the work news, and the gout.

Second, it's tortuous to watch someone else's taper agonies (for this is what they are) unfold. Pains which appear, disappear and reappear are a typical feature of the final three weeks, when fear of injury is rightly at its height.

Also completely normal are your crazy thoughts that you probably won't be able to do it, that you might have to walk some in the second half (like everyone else, so what?), will get no pleasure from it, will have to let QPR decide your destiny, blah blah blah.

Fine, so you ditched the 20 miler, understandably given the twinges, but there's an 18 miler, a 14 miler and two half marathons already in the tank. At this late stage, maybe it might actually have been wise not to run that 20 anyway.

Get real ! No one said it was going to be easy, mate. You're an experienced marathon runner now, so go for it.

And yes, it might hurt, a lot, but it'll make great reading ;-)