that set me right back. I didn't get any physio until June, and have only just got back to a fit state - I've missed all my long rides as a result and it is now too late to make up the time. At my test event - the Bala half ironman at the start of June – I

to the rhythm of your feet. It had been a long and bumpy road to this point. The original plan had been for me to pace Mrs CH to a sub-4.30 so she could announce her retirement from marathon running, but four weeks of illness had long since scuppered that

the marathon with disabilities or under stressful conditions and made me realise that this is what the London Marathon is all about – it makes a winner out of every runner.This race was a great event for me personally and one that I shall remember forever. Kiwi

to be a one-off, a birthday present to myself to celebrate my 50th and to shut me up. For years I'd been saying I had a marathon in me (yeah - a 16-stone retired prop forward running a marathon - as if... everyone knows props don't run....). I thought