Near death experience.

[El Gordo]

I will catch up with the BW book -- thanks again GM. I'm feeding small slices of RA into my consciousness during my lunch breaks and so far, I have to say, it's one of those reads that I'm sure we're all familiar with, where we say: "I wish I'd written that".

The prose is splendid, as you'd expect from a pro journalist. The BW extract I read on Amazon was also well written though perhaps a bit more passionate / polemical. I'll tackle it after RA.

I should say that at the moment I can't see myself fully embracing the changes discussed by RA because I still think there's a place for people like me in suburban streets and big organised events where we can feed off the discarded glories of those who passed this way earlier. Sometimes I think that the fellrunning v urban/big races argument is a bit like arguing over ice hockey vs field hockey or 11-a-side football v 5-a-side. Better to treat them as different animals completely even though they share similar underlying motions.

But after I finish RA (and am still only 1/3 of the way through) I may feel different. Can't wait for the next few pages.