Nottingham Post published Garry Birtles: Beyond the running, the sweat and the flies,...

Running around Wollaton Park, we would be the only people there praying for rain.There were a fog of flies, because they followed all the deer around. And they themselves left little landmines of a different variety for you to worry about.You would hate it when it was sunny, because the heat would drain you; it would make the running five times harder.I was not bad at pre-season, because I was always a decent runner. I could do it.But it didn't mean I had to like it. I am yet to meet a...