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2025 Helsinki Marathon report
Photo: Aarni Holappa Some context I was keen to get another marathon in my legs, having ran my last marathon in Tokyo in 2017, where I ran out out of steam finishing in 3hrs:43mins. I had been training for the last year, mostly shorter distances up to 20km, but since May I had increasing the…
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A mild week
It’s been a fairly mild week, without much wind, with temperatures getting as high as 15c this week. All that changed on Sunday, though, as we caught the fringes of Storm Ashley when it suddenly became very wet and very blustery with some 50mph/80kmh southwesterly gusts, although still mild at 14c. It about 11 weeks…
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Resuming my running journey: Remembering Thomas
I’m back blogging after an absence of approximately ten years (where did that go). My former blog, For The T-Shirt, was launched at the start of my long-distance running journey in 2009 and was essentially a motivational tool for me. I was training for my first marathon at Loch Ness. It was because of that blog…