#12 / 12 Headley Heath Trail Marathon, 12 December (12/12) 2020 05:31:05 The idea Initially I wasn’t too sure what to do for the last one. I knew it had to be a trail marathon and I wanted to keep it local. I’ve become a bit spoiled during lockdowns by Read more…
#11 / 12 Leith Hill 50k (Centurion One Community), 28 November 2020 07:31:39 I’ve had my eye on Leith Hill for a while but never actually run there. The November run presented the perfect opportunity with Centurion once again putting on the “One Community” virtual run series and the 50k Read more…
#10 / 12 Virtual London Marathon, 04 October 2020 05:15:40 The plan It was great to be able to participate in the 40th Anniversary London marathon – albeit virtually. Tom had laid out a course around Windsor Park comprising two laps. Windsor has been the site of several previous half Read more…
#9 / 12 Scafell Pike fell marathon, 02 September 2020 09:40:44 And now for something completely different… A late change to a COVID-affected Summer holiday found Cally & I in the Lake district for a week’s break. I had one eye on my September marathon but had not planned anything Read more…
#8 / 12 North Downs Way 100 Mile Ultra Marathon, 08 August 2020 27:52:17  So many things were uncertain about this one. The biggest two were: starting, and then finishing. This race had been an elephant in the room for months. I think it was back in January when Read more…
#7 / 12 North Downs Way Trail Marathon, 12 July 2020 6:12:03 My homemade oak leaves medal This was a solo version of an event which had been scheduled for the previous week and cancelled due to COVID. No reason not to run it as it’s in my back yard. Read more…
#6 / 12 Beer Ultra 50km, 13 June 2020 8:32:58 (6:32:24 moving) Easy to explain. Hard to fathom. 5 laps of 2 loops: 5x (2x (5km [3mi])) = 50km [31mi] Drink a beer at the start of each loop (in my case Peroni 330ml bottles) Drink a beer at Read more…
#5 / 12 Kingswood 100km, 24 May 2020 13:37:25 No medal, no fellow competitors, no start or finish line – this was always going to be a challenge. It would have been easy to bail on this one after the cancellation of London2Brighton. I had really been looking forward Read more…
#4 / 12 Banstead Woods Trail Marathon, 11 April 2020 04:12:59 My second COVID-19 affected race. April was due to be the London Marathon – still looking forward to that postponed event in October. With no runs happening this was always going to have to be a bit creative. I Read more…
#3 / 12 Sussex Trail Marathon, 14 March 2020 05:41:56 This was not Barcelona. I had been looking forward to a weekend away with a flat(ish) big city marathon for a change but COVID-19 left me looking for an alternative at short notice. Fortunately the folks at Endurance life were Read more…