Tim's Running London 2020!
NorthamptonTim
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Tim's Running London 2020!
Fulfilling a personal ambition to run the London Marathon, courtesy of the very fine people at Macmillan Cancer Support!
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I want to start this post with the admin. Not to get it out of the way, but because, for me, it's big news:
February Training target: 140.00 km
February Training distance: 176.78 km (110 miles)
Total Training distance to date: ...
Now if I'd known that turning 60 was going to be such a long celebration, so much fun and such a great opportunity to catch up with friends and family then I'd have done it sooner. Really, I never imagined that so many people would be so determined to c...
Happy New Year everybody!
I'm going to blame all of you (the community of Realbuzz bloggers and all my other supporters) for my latest development. For writing vivid, inspiring blog entries, for being so passionate and so emotional; for giving me an as...
November was the month the season changed. One of Hope_Mountain_Runner's recent observations on being a runner was 'witnessing the changing of the seasons, and feeling it more keenly than those who don't really play outside' (1).
Well, this year I'm...
October passed in a flash, didn't it?! On reflection, I made steady progress. I achieved my 120 km target distance for October (so I've raised my target for November to 125 km) and I completed the Rugby Half Marathon on a chilly morning at the end of th...
The weather prediction was awful; torrential rain, the BBC promised me! Thank goodness they were wrong, if only by a critical few hours.
This run was my first milestone towards London 2020. I haven't run a half marathon for quite a few years, so I didn...
In 2020, I'll be sixty.
Thank you, no, I can't believe it either, but it's true.
And I've wanted to run the London Marathon for years. In a previous life, I was part of the logistics operation that supported the marathon and, believe me, that was ...
