So New York is done and dusted. I had an amazing time with the Swiss. I actually took much inspiration from what she achieved. I truly believe that everyone who finishes a marathon is a hero – 26.2 miles run as fast as you can manage it, whether that is in 2:04 or 7 hours, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘grand slam’
The Grand Slam is dead. Vive le Marathon de Paris
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged grand slam, marathon, new york marathon, paris marathon, running, training on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New York, New York
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged grand slam, injury, marathon, new york marathon, paris marathon, running, scaphoid on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Short post – the marathon was a resounding success. Apart from a hiccup at the start when I corrected my alarm clock (iPhone) to take into account the fact that in the US daylight saving happened on the Saturday night before the marathon and the phone then automatically adjusted itself as well, which meant that [...]
450 miles to New York
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged grand slam, marathon, new york marathon, running, training on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This has not been my most successful attempt at writing a blog – so much has happened since I first posted about trying to run the 5 major marathons that I could write for a week and not bring this story up to date. However there have been a few ‘major’ developments: • I have [...]
The idea
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged grand slam, marathon, running on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On 30 September 2007 I achieved something I never thought I would – I ran a marathon in under 3 hours… 02:59:36 to be precise. The reality is that until a year before that I never thought I would run a marathon full stop. Still, I had trained hard and achieved what I wanted (although [...]
