IT WAS AT THIS SHOP WHERE I BOUGHT A T-SHIRT YESTERDAY...
Next year, I’m going to try the London Marathon. It’s hard race 26 miles, or 42 kilometers-and you have to
be tough to finish, but I very much want to do it. I worry a bit about getting too old, and I’d like to prove to myself
that I’m still almost as fit as I was twenty years old.
I’m interested in mountaineering as well as running. I’ll never become an expert climber, but I know what
I’m doing in the mountains. I successfully completed a course in snow and ice climbing when I was younger; and
I’ve done a series of easy climbs in the Alps during the last few years. My wife doesn’t share my interest in
mountains. She agreed to go climbing with me once, but she found that she felt ill as soon as she got above 1,000
meters.