Where do I go from here?

[El Gordo]

Originally posted by Yorkshire Plodder
Anyway, Andy, what is this fascination of yours with violent crime?

If MLCM sticks around much longer, you may see it at first hand...

Not really.

I suppose it was a reference to me mentioning the Yorkshire Ripper a couple of times. We're all interested in violent crime, aren't we? As long as it happens on the other side of the glass.

Agree totally about running and rain. My main regret about being lazy and demotivated at the moment is that I've missed all that rain to run in. I don't understand the rainist tendency among runners. Being against it suggests to me a fundamental confusion between running and real life.

In real life, you wear clothes and it's not very nice when these get wet. Sometimes it spoils them, but most of the time it just makes you uncomfortable until you can dry or change them. And your hair gets wet. Uugh.

In Plodderama, you don't wear clothes. Not many, anyhow. You wear skimpy bits of cloth designed not to absorb water. You can splosh through puddles like a naughty child, and it doesn't matter. You can run, grinning, past bus-stopfuls of miserable, shrunken people whining about the rain. You can feel the water streaming down your face and down your back and it makes you giggle like a kiddie.

Best of all, you get home, and the very first thing you ALWAYS do when you return from a run is to take off your clothes, so it doesn't matter if they are wet.

The second thing you ALWAYS do when you return from a run is to have a shower or a bath, so it doesn't matter if you and your hair are already wet.

But as for cleaning down and re-oiling a bike... sheesh, what a nightmare that sounds. Gimme running anytime.

I do have a bike, mind you. It lives in a garage 220 miles from my home. It's safe there.

Andy