Archive for 'Marathon' Category

Done it!

The marathon journey is over! A while back I posted my targets for the Berlin marathon: Dream goal: Under 4:30 in good shape. Challenging Target: 4:30 in any shape. Acceptable goal: Finishing. In the end, I finished in 4:34 in reasonable shape, with fairly even splits. So, I’m 4 minutes off my dream goal. My [...]

120lb journey

How running changed one man’s life.

Marathon update

It is now only 13 days until the Berlin marathon, and I thought I’d give a brief update on my progress during training. Since I started training proper I have run 379 miles; my highest mileage week was 41 miles including a 20 mile long run. I now have only 30 miles of training left [...]

Please sponsor me!

I have taken the breathtakingly stupid decision to run the Berlin Marathon on September 26th 2010. I have done a couple of half marathons, and usually I’m too inhibited to request donations for charity. However, given that this may well be my one and only marathon, I thought I would try and raise some money [...]