Yorkshire Marathon 2024
Despite originally not planning on running a marathon this year I entered the Yorkshire Marathon just 13 days before the event. Whilst I feel as fit as I've been in a long time, resulting in my recent recent win at the Potters 'Arf, I had only done one 20 mile run since August. In the end I decided to have a go and see what happens on the day, rather than not enter and then have no idea what I was capable of. Based on training and recent events I thought that I might be able to do something in and around the 2.25 mark, but this was assuming I was properly trained for the distance. I suspected that ultimately I would be found wanting as there is no easy way to a good performance and so it proved on the day... At the off I settled into a comfortable pace and was joint second with the leader about 30 metres ahead. After 2 miles the leader had been pulled back into our group that now contained five of us in total. The weather was now getting steadily wors...