It’s race weekend once again, the final race of 2024 and it’s a big one. The 2024 Chicago Marathon. This is the race I had been training all summer for, gone through the highs and many lows of this training block but I am here. I flew out on Friday 11th Oct from Manchester via Dublin with Aer Lingus arriving into O’Hare at 2pm. Having … Continue reading CHICAGO MARATHON 2024 BIB PICK UP & EXPO
Race weekend once again!! This time I headed out to Berlin for my 18th marathon and 13th world marathon major. I last ran the Berlin Marathon in 2017 where the expo was held at a different venue and I didn’t write a post about the expos back then and as I am getting an old boy now the memory isn’t what it once was (it’s … Continue reading BERLIN MARATHON 2024 BIB PICK UP & EXPO
Here we go again, another year and back to London for the London Marathon, one of my absolute favourite races and an absolute nightmare to get into. After running the London Marathon 2018 and London Marathon 2023 with my family supporting on both occasions, why break a theme. This year we all packed up and headed down to London on the train bright and early … Continue reading LONDON MARATHON 2024 REGISTRATION & EXPO
You know the saying… You wait ages for a bus then two come at once! Well, you wait ages to qualify for Boston (with a big enough buffer!) then you go back to back, baby. After finally achieving my dream of racing Boston in last year’s Boston Marathon 2023 after the heartbreak of missing out in 2020 due to the COVID cancellation and then again … Continue reading BOSTON MARATHON 2024 BIB PICK UP & EXPO
I headed to the London Marathon expo on Saturday with the family to pick up my race bib for the race the day after. Having ran the Boston Marathon on Monday and traveled back to the UK Tuesday, I wasn’t really planning on spending much time at the expo, I wanted to spend as little time on my feet as possible. Never an easy task … Continue reading LONDON MARATHON 2023 REGISTRATION & EXPO
After 3 and a half years of waiting, I finally made it to Boston (despite a 21-hour delay on the way out) and hit the expo on Saturday 15th April. Yes, I know! Expo on a Saturday is generally not the best time to go but to be honest, it wasn’t that bad. The original plan was to go on Friday when it opened up … Continue reading BOSTON MARATHON 2023 REGISTRATION & EXPO
Finally, after 3 years I am heading back to New York to run the marathon. This is my fourth New York City marathon after racing in 2017, 2018 and 2019. If the world had gone to plan this would have been number 6 after 2020 was cancelled and then missing out due to the travel ban in 2021. I am just really happy to be … Continue reading NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2022 – DAY 1: TRAVEL DAY & EXPO
The final day in New York. Another marathon weekend draws to a close as does the 2019 racing season for me. I now have no more races on the plan until 1st March 2020 and after a long season which pretty much began on the 27th November 2018 and went right through to yesterday, 3rd November 2019, it has been a long tiring year. It … Continue reading NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2019 – DAY 4: LEAVING NEW YORK
This post will be quite brief. Today was race day so I will post a separate New York City Marathon race recap. I have a rule when it comes to posting or making any decisions after a big race like this. Leave it 72 hours before doing anything regarding the race. That gives time for things to sink in and not post in the heat … Continue reading NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2019 – DAY 3: RACE DAY
After a long tiring travel day and expo yesterday in the NYCM Day 1 post, today was going to be more relaxing and getting things ready for the run tomorrow. I was also signed up to run the Abbott 5k Dash to the Finish which I was going to be using as a shakeout run. I didn’t have a great sleep, the room felt hot … Continue reading NEW YORK CITY MARATHON 2019 – DAY 2: 5K DASH & RELAXING?
The Cheshire Runner. 