I was chatting with a friend the other day about running and said something about having gone totally fell nowadays. He misheard me and thought I'd said totally feral .

Thinking about it though, like some scraggy arsed cat, I kind of think I have. I can't remember the last time I ran on roads, I no longer run with a club training, 90% of my runs I do on my tod, I'm getting anti-social and completely unreliable when it comes to turning up for organised recces with others, I rarely race and, when I do, I wonder whether I'm doing them more as arse about face training for solo runs rather than the other way round .

I knew I'd eventually turn into a hill billy when I moved up north.