Tag: World Major Marathons

A Marathon Journey

I remember Stuart coming home from his annual pre-Christmas lunch with two mates in 2008 and announcing that they were all going to run the New York Marathon the following November.  Given the somewhat liquid nature these lunches can take at times I have to admit I took the news with a grain of salt, […]

A sideline view of London Marathon

There’s a reason we use the word marathon as a descriptor of a particularly long and torturous experiences.  We’ve all come out of hideously long drawn out meetings shaking our heads and grumbling about what a marathon session that was, or whinged about the marathon endurance feat that spending days on end at cricket games […]