due to the old ones rubbing against an ankle injury. During the week leading up to the event, get woken up at 4 in the morning by your 3-year-old daughter who has been sleeping perfectly through the night for several months. On Wednesday, get a phone

and I did the first Nike 10K for a target race. Since then I've not looked back on the running but had the odd smoking hiccup. Glad to say the smoking is now a thing of the past. I branched out to drowning and peddalling this year and am happy to say I

it was time to put up and shut up. But I did it, and missed my target of a sub-4 and came in at 4:07...and that was it. I'd done it - I'd run a marathon. Move on.And I did move on - and carried on running in other events - but crucially I got started doing