What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

[Bierzo Baggie]

That book just wouldn’t have been published anywhere if the author’s name hadn’t been Haruki Murakami.

I found it relaxing, occasionally irritating and unintentionally funny. A bit like listening to The Smiths. Didn’t know what to make of it...

Born to Run was an excellent read but again I would take a lot of that barefoot running stuff with a pinch of common sense. At the end of the day they’re Tamahumara indians and we’re not!
I’ve heard rumours of a film in the pipeline. Here’s the final chapter...
http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adv...Horse.html

Feet in the Clouds was the best though!

I miss El Gordo’s prose too. Where’s it gone? The Zurich marathon piece alone probably got me to the finish at Zegama. At the race’s highest point I was hounded by the grim sweeper, some scrawny guy dressed in black who I just couldn’t help visualizing as a bloody great Swiss-bus! But El Gordo kept one step ahead... and so did I.