A marathon, not a sprint

It’s the London marathon this weekend and I’ll be there, but not running. Just watching and cheering on a few friends. For most of my life, trainers were an ever present part of my lugguge where ever I travelled. In my time I ran over 200 long distance road races all over the place and two London marathons, one competitively and one for charity.  In 1996 I found myself in the right place at the right time and made it into the Times when I ended up doing the press tour with Steve Coppell and various other celebrities for the 96 London Marathon, spot the odd one out! I also appeared on Radio Five live.

Unfortunately,  it was downhill from that point as I was unlucky with injuries. In the space of two years I went from decent club runner to also ran when, amongst other issues, I ruptured my achilles tendon. I never recovered from my injuries and now its really painful to run, so I’ve pretty much had to hang up my trainers. I go out for a shuffle now and again, no longer a run.

A marathon, not a sprint, is an often quoted phrase to back up the the old tortoise and hare fable. It took me years to work out that doing roughly the right things over a period of time produces the right result and it’s a lesson for us all. While I no longer run marathons, I still get inspiration from that simple phrase.

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