(07-04-2014, 04:26 PM)glaconman Wrote: It's as though this book had never been written:
Boff Whalley- Run Wild
I have it, and more to the point, I have it with me! Criminally, this has hovered near the top of my reading list for over a year. Time to put that right.
I fell upon Askwith because FITC had such a profound effect on me. EG's hinted at my tongue-in-cheek view that RA spent a while in the RC archive before knocking his latest one out. He's a convert, a former stat-monkey and gadget-hound. It's like looking in a distorted mirror, I keep catching glimpses of myself.
EG may be closer to the truth than RA would like to admit. Many pavement pounders are so due to necessity, not choice. I've lost count of the number of times I've reached the top of the W, or the trig point at Blackcap, taken a deep breath and silently thanked whoever is responsible for landing me on their doorstep. The thought of having to squeeze training runs into the madness of city life makes me shiver.
There's more choice than some will accept or admit, though. Dan and Antonio live in urban areas yet choose to seek out rough terrain races or offroad circuits. You can argue that this approach may have done for Dan's achillies. Dan is the best person to offer insight on that. Whilst nursing my mother last year I'd take off to the local park and plod endless, tiny laps of the local rec, like an ageing, over-fed tiger patroling it's cage. Anything to get off the concrete.
