On the 23rd April I raced my third London Marathon having taken part in the 2018 London Marathon with a charity bib and setting my current marathon PB in the 2023 London Marathon with a good for age place. That 2023 PB was good enough to get me another good for age entry for this year so I thought I would use it whilst I … Continue reading LONDON MARATHON 2024 RACE RECAP
This is a quick look through the gear I used to run the London Marathon 2024 on 21st April and the nutrition I used before and during the race. I won’t talk about the post race Big Mac & Fries, we’ll keep it classy here. Having raced the Boston Marathon 2024 6 days prior to London, the vast majority of this race day gear is … Continue reading LONDON MARATHON 2024 GEAR
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
On 15th April, I raced my second Boston Marathon. This being my 16th marathon (plus 4 lockdown virtuals) and 11th world marathon major. Last year I raced the Boston Marathon 2023 and got my first taste of this special race weekend. I was fortunate enough to run a BQ in Boston but then improved on that by a further 5 minutes at the London Marathon … Continue reading BOSTON MARATHON 2024 RACE RECAP
In this post I will give you a rundown of the gear I will be running the 128th Boston Marathon in and what I will be eating and drinking for breakfast and both pre and during the race. Although I run the 2023 Boston and London marathons, it seems I forgot to post a Gear blog for those, so it has actually been 18 months … Continue reading BOSTON MARATHON 2024 GEAR
Up until the Boston Marathon 2023, I have always taken part in the big BAA or NYRR 5k races taking place around marathon weekend. Last year, I bucked that trend and opted for some of the free brand activations and shakeout runs which I talked about in my Boston Marathon 2023 Shakeout Runs post. This year, I decided to do the same as those shakeouts … Continue reading BOSTON MARATHON 2024 SHAKEOUT RUNS
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
On 23rd April I raced the London Marathon for the second time. After gaining a charity place for the 2018 London Marathon, this year I had a good-for-age place from last year’s Paris Marathon and was aiming for a much better time than the 3:58.13 I ran in 2018 whilst dressed as a Love Heart. Training for this year’s race had gone really well, I … Continue reading LONDON MARATHON 2023 RACE RECAP
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
So here we go then. A race recap I have saved in my drafts folder since March 2020. On 17th April 2023, I raced my first Boston Marathon, my 6th of the 6 World Marathon Majors, and my 14th marathon overall (not including virtuals). Man, it feels good writing that. So we’ll get the whole I have been waiting for this race for years and … Continue reading BOSTON MARATHON 2023 RACE RECAP
The Cheshire Runner. 