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I ran the Nike Run To The Beat half-marathon yesterday. I’ve only done one half-marathon before, the 2005 Windsor Half Marathon, when I was a child-free 30 year old. As the colleague I was supposed to be racing yesterday dropped out, I decided to race my 2005 self.
In 2005 I ran the 13.1 miles [...]
I completed the 2011 London Marathon in 4h 28m 51s. That’s about three minutes faster than the last one (and the course was more congested this year, it was really hot, I was wearing a large nylon wig etc etc).
My target throughout training was 4h 20m (just under ten-minute miles), and I was more [...]
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I’m aiming for 4h 20m, but my last two have been between 4h 30m and 4h 40m. So hopefully I’ll be somewhere ten minutes either side of a 4h 30m time. The gun starts at 9:45, but I’ll probably cross the [...]
Almost there. Last long run yesterday, 20.1 miles round Rotherhithe, Deptford, Greenwich, through the foot tunnel, Isle of Dogs, Canary Wharf, Wapping, over the Millennium (wobbly) bridge and back along the South Bank, Shad Thames and Bermondsey.
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I’m still building up the miles and the pace for the marathon. Only a month to go.
Here’s last weekend’s:
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We did our tower climb at the weekend. All four of us finished – my time was 12m 3s – that’s 11 seconds a storey, or two stairs a second. I came 22nd overall, and our team came seventh (out of nine!). Here’s a video of the first tower climb… And some pictures…
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On Sunday 7th November, at 9:30, I and my ace stair-climbing team (four of us from work, plus Gin) will attempt the FT London Twin Peak Challenge.
This is a two-tower-run – we race up the stairs of both the Broadgate Tower and CityPoint from ground to penthouse. That’s 67 floors, 1,512 steps and 935 [...]
My leg is getting a bit better at last, I can run again!
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And now a short message for my sponsors – thank you very much! I hit my £1,500 target with £500 from Credit Suisse, £184 from a cake sale (thanks, bakers!), more from a work jeans day, and around £800 on the justgiving sites. In return I burnt 4,700 calories, lost 2cm in height, and ran [...]
I finished my marathon, in 4h 31m 35s. It was hot hot hot! I was a little disappointed with my time – I was aiming for 4h 20m, but I knew it was a bad omen when I was overtaken by a yellow sperm after 15 minutes.
A few pictures then, and my results here. [...]
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