WHY?! by Ruddyspine is Krippling

WHY?! by Ruddyspine is Krippling

If you can keep your kit when all about are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can navigate when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too.
If you can trudge and not be tired by trudging,
And being hungry, don’t just eat all the pies,
Or being thirsty don’t just rely on coffee,
And yet don’t look too knackered, nor talk too wise.
If you can dream and not make GPS your master.
If you can think and make Kirk Yetholm [Hardraw] your aim.
If you can meet with Pavel and Eugeni
And treat those two Legends just the same.
If you can bear to see your post on Facebook twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.
Or watch the plan you trained a year for, broken and stoop and build it up with worn out tools.
If you can make one heap of all your mandatory possessions and forget about the cost.
And get lost, and start again when you get your bearings and never breathe a word about being lost.
If you can force your feet and legs and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: “Move on!”
If you can walk with runners and keep your humour,
Or talk with marshals and thank them all so much.
If neither wind nor freezing rain can hurt you,
If all check points count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving week [weekend] with 268 [108] miles worth of distance run,
Yours is the Pennine Way and everything that’s on it,
And which is more you’ll have broken The Spine,
Well Done!

This traditional poem might give you some inspiration during your last couple of months of training... Andy Norman [1]