Legs felt good but struggled with a stitch from the start. It got worse at about mile 19 so I[…]
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Berlin Marathon 2019
Not my day! Started ok, but it became clear by 15K sub-2:45 wasn’t on. Tried to just keep to marathon[…]
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The London Marathon isn’t like other marathons. Indeed to a large proportion of the non-running public, it’s the only marathon.[…]
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Prologue Last summer I set myself the ambitious target of running a sub-80 half marathon at Oxford in October. My[…]
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After 18 weeks of training and 1,500 miles of running, it was time to see what all that work would[…]
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So, after 12 weeks of training and 887 miles on the roads it was time to put all that effort[…]
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Sunday saw the sixth running of the Brighton Marathon, now the UK’s second largest marathon after London with 10,947 starters.[…]
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My first marathon! Training had gone reasonably well, if not perfectly. I had chosen to do the P&D 55-70 mile[…]
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