Heavy traffic on the Thames

[marathondan]

Not just because I'm so far off that mark (with no prospect whatever of any PBs) but I was reminded by the report that Moyleman did me the honour of attending. It was the first time we met, and I remember this sinewy hill runner being rather disgusted by how pathetic this desolate plod around a pancake-flat man-made lake was, and in particular, how pathetic it was that I had no greater ambition than to run 10K in an hour.

Yes, that name leapt off the page for me, as well.

I'm always skeptical when book blurbs claim that you'll be unable to avoid laughing out loud. But I did chuckle audibly at this: "I started to feel sorry for Ash and Nigel, running so far below their instinctive pace, they must have been considering taking a nap." I imagine Chris would have been in that number, too.