June 2011

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

Glad to hear the echo of a few distant voices again.

You already have the answer, Sweder, and that's the age-old one of having plans. You have too much pride to turn up for the events in your calendar with no training under your belt, so I'm confident it will all be resolved. GM is right about new routes, though your excuses are plausible. One simple route change is to do a usual circuit in reverse, but if I remember correctly, your Blackcap run is an out-and-back. Is there another way of reaching the summit, I wonder?

How about reviving your Saturday morning Parkruns, just to keep you engaged with the right crowd of people?

I should have thought the prospect of having your sorry lardy arse kicked up an antipodean mountain by a merciless Aussie would be incentive enough to get some miles under your kilt, but what would I know ... I'm just a convict, apparently.

Just get out there and do it man!