Mike Clyne 
Mike Clyne spoke to Hamid Vaghefian, Head of Community Engagement at LME, he said the original idea behind The Big Half was to inspire local communities to take part in running and to reflect London’s diversity across participants, volunteers and spectators.
Not only was this great for my training for the London Marathon just eight weeks later, but I got to experience running on the streets of London again but for ‘just’ 13.1 miles. Here is my assessment of the race.
One of the things that makes Comrades such a special race is the fact that there are different medals that you can be awarded. We take a look at these, plus some key stats about the race.
After Mike Clyne did his first Comrades last year, in a ‘down’ year, he wanted to go back to experience the ‘up’ race. Find out how he got on in the ultimate human race.
This year the London Marathon trialed bottle belts, to save on the number of plastic bottles used by runners. Our contributor, Mike Clyne, was one of the runners who tried one. Here’s what he thought.
It was cooler than usual at this year’s Virgin Money London Marathon. Mike Clyne takes a look at whether this meant that times were faster.
The London Marathon is almost here and if you’re running it, you’ll probably be worrying about all sorts this week. Mike Clyne gives us his best advice for making sure the day goes smoothly!
In the next article in our ‘My First Marathon’ series you can read about John Lunt, race director, who did it with a little help from his friends!
In the next in our ‘My First Marathon’ series Paul Addicott remembers his first, the London Marathon in 2011
The next runner in our ‘my first marathon’ series should be familiar to you all – she’s a double Olympic gold medalist, she’s set up her own charitable trust, she’s an inspiration to just about everybody and she ran a pretty impressive first marathon! It’s Colonel Dame Kelly Holmes MBE (mil)
In the latest in our series of articles about running your first marathon, Sharon Grinsted remembers her first London Marathon and gives you some great tips!
In the next in our series of articles about running your first marathon, Adam Davies tells us about his experience running the 2003 London Marathon
Are you training for your first marathon? Check out the latest article in our ‘my first marathon’ series to get top tips and advice from runners who’ve been there (quite a few times in the case of Susie Chan!)
Leading up to the 2019 Virgin Money London Marathon, we’re bringing you a series of interviews with runners about their first marathons so that you can learn from their successes and mistakes!
Mike Clyne recently did Comrades Marathon and he shares his experience and lessons learned from his first forays into the world of ultra running