Go!vember

[El Gordo]

while trapped in his Lexus... which never smelled the same again. It's enough to put you off running for good... or at least using your Lexus post-run (are you reading this, EG?) ...

I am, but belatedly. I have a bad habit of not checking in here enough. (I get an email when some sub-forums see new threads, but not all - and not this one. I must climb into the entrails and make sure I've checked the right boxes...)

After my post about NaNoWriMo, I received some sturdy advice from an impassioned MLCM. I decided to obey him, partly because his arguments were intellectually incontestable and comprehensively persuasive, but mainly because I was a bit scared.

So I've switched horses in midstream and am using the NaNo structure and the writing time to finish that damn running book. The reasons I mention this are a) to say thank you b) to assuage your post-speech remorse c) to remind myself that conversations like this one are a great resource, and probably better than my own flickering memory.

Er, and in the hope that you won't beat me up.

I'll be feverishly following the gang's progress up the mountain, as well as the rapid slide down the other side, through the post-race hydration.

Good luck all.