Are you currently training for a marathon? Maybe it’s your first one? Our new series asks experienced runners about their first marathons – the highs, the lows, and the lessons they learned. We hope it helps you.
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.
In 1985 Mike was a ‘skinny, naive, eighteen year old taking on his first London Marathon’*. To this day, having stood on the start line a further fourteen times, the race has a hold on Mike and he revels in the unchanged cammeraderie, passion and enthusiasm, as marathon day brings out the best in us. [*Ed: his own words!]
