2008 - June

[Bierzo Baggie]

Andy, I found your description hilarious, especially when you lay in that field with your eyes closed. Sorry if I wasn’t meant to.

Don’t ever feel bad about coming in last. I’ve been last in the first half of a race and kids have shouted things at me. I was last but 3 once but the loudspeaker announced me as the last runner home and I lapped up all that sympathetic applause without saying anything:o And no doubt I’m one of the hot favourites to finish last in Picos this Saturday.

If you do a lot of races over a certain number of years, you pick up the occasional injury and run anyway, you get older and run anyway, you feel bad on the day and run anyway… it is inevitable that one day you will be the last one home. Keep your sense of humour (as you obviously do) and enjoy it, the alternative is not to run in races for fear of finishing last. That’s what people do here and there are great races with hardly any participation as a result. They’re all afraid of finishing last!

Keep going.. I’ll be laying off the running for a bit after Picos and I’m relying on you and MLCM to get me through the summer.