and awareness for Guide Dogs, Dave’s epic run raised £275,000 and prompted a 600 per cent increase in enquiries to run for Guide Dogs in the Flora London Marathon 2009.Richard WhiteheadRichard Whitehead is a runner with a sub-3:30 Flora London Marathon PB
research and discovered there were a few very good British marathon runners, but none were even close to being in the same league as the Kenyan or Ethiopian runners. In 1985, 105 British men had run under 2:20 for the London Marathon, but only a handful had
regularly train with a club mate who runs a 33:00 10K against my 40:00 10K. The plus side is that I have broken my PB at every distance from 5K to marathon in the past 18 months - a fact I put down to being pulled along by my club mate. Dubai Dave
British men broke 2:20 in the marathon. However, the number of British men who did that in 1983 was 102! What has changed? David Jones 39 The first reason is that there were a lot more people running. The second is that people were prepared to run as many
