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stoat | April 16, 2012 The follow-up to Amsterdam and Brighton part 1. Again, if you lack interest in running, the answer is 3:54.28.
The photo is me and James Edgoose after the finish. By this point we've gone through the phases of collapsed in a heap for a bit, drunk some water, eaten a banana, just about got up, walked a bit, sat down again, got up and are capable of smiling... well you get the idea. And I can only speak for my own collapse, James finished 15+ mins ahead of me so may have been all sparkly at the finish for all I know.
This year was much better than Brighton last year, but only a bit (3 mins)…
stoat | April 11, 2011 [Another in a series of posts designed to disguise my failure to come up with a daily sea ice bet. But I'll get there.]
The backstory: a while ago, last September, some friends mentioned that they were training for the Brighton Marathon and would I like to run the Grunty Fen half marathon in two weeks time? At that point I'd been running for about half a year (starting from "rowing and running, but I should add that I'd been fairly fit before then) so I said yes. Since then I've pulled my half marathon score down from 1:51 to 1:41, and done some training runs out to 32k, which is 3/4 of the…