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Gill Pimblott Memorial Race 2012
and A&T Internal Club Half Marathon. To be held on Sunday, 19th August 2012, at the Miners Welfare Club, Gin Pit Village, Ley Road, Tyldesley, Manchester, M29 7DW. This is an internal club event, to be held along side the Gin Pit Trail Marthon and is open to A&T Club members and guests only. The [...]
Belfast Marathon 2012
Well I’ve seen Belfast now. It’s a very similar city in many ways to Manchester but with docks. Even the rain made me feel right at home! It has the same kinds of architecture, road signs and money. The fascinating differences for me were the legacy’s from its more violent past which I remember watching [...]
The 2nd Gin Pit Trail Marathon
Sunday 19th August 2012 Start at 10:00am The 2nd Gin Pit Trail marathon aims to continue the theme of the Gin Pit Double marathon from earlier this year, by offering local runners the opportunity to run a low key friendly marathon. The inspiration for this course was to share the area’s pleasant trails that I [...]
Greater Manchester Marathon
I thought it was fantastic for a Manchester marathon to return after a 10 year absence. And I was very pleased to see such a well organised marathon with a large field of runners. Unluckily the weather was absolutely awful cold only 5 degrees, with very heavy rain throughout and strong winds. For April I [...]
Rock ‘n’ Roll Madrid
When I was rejected from the London marathon for this year, I wasn’t at all upset as I have done it 6 times but felt like I wanted to enter a big city marathon for April. I looked in the marathon listings and found the “Rock n Roll” Madrid marathon which sounded like a good [...]
Thoughts. . .
It’s the 9th April 2012 and I’m in Anglesey with my family for Easter. It has been a very pleasant weekend, spending time firstly with my parents and later with friends John, Lisa and their children Amelia and Regan. Today is the last day of our holiday and it hasn’t stopped raining. I suppose we [...]
Gin Pit Double Marathon 2012
Well what a weekend, I feel totally shattered! The first thing I want to mention is the weather. What were the odds on us seeing unbroken sunshine and temperatures of 19 degrees at the end of March in rainy Manchester? Utterly unbelievable! Now to talk about the running, the event is in its second year [...]
Blackpool
It was strange and a very pleasant change for me, to drive to and back from a marathon and use less than half a tank of petrol. The short drive up to Blackpool made a nice change from the hours spent recently trudging up and down the motorways to Anglesey, Gloucester and Milton Keynes! I [...]
Leap Year Marathon
I just couldn’t resist it! Not many people can say they have run a marathon on 29th February. The whole day was a bit of a rush with an 5am alarm call and early morning drive to the Furzton lake in Milton Keynes. It was nice to briefly meet some of the usual marathon maniacs [...]
Quadzilla – Day 4
I woke up this morning to find my right shin all red and swollen. This is something I’ve never experienced before. I got some ice from the bar and some anti inflammatory tablets from another runner. I massaged my shin with the ice till 15 minutes before the start of the race. I decided to [...]