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Personal bests

  • Personal bests 2004-
    10k: Brighton Reebok 10k, November 20, 2005 0:45:25
    10 miles: Seaford Striders Mince Pie Ten Mile, December 12, 2004 01:25:19
    20K: Firle 20k, September 28, 2008 2:06:52
    Half-marathon: Hastings Half Marathon, March 12, 2006 01:42:23
    20 miles: Jog Shop Jog, October 15, 2006 03:24:46
    Marathon: Isle of Wight Marathon, May 21, 2006 04:10:40

Pages: my running history; Beachy Head Marathon 2008

What does the Greek in the banner mean?

  • χαιρέτε νικὠμεν
    χαιρέτε νικὠμεν means "Greetings, we've won" and are the words attributed by Plutarch and Lucian to the runner who brought news of victory at the battle of Marathon to the people of Athens. They both wrote some six hundred years after the battle and the story is unlikely. Herodotus, who was closer to events, writes of a runner called Pheidippides who ran from Athens to Sparta to ask for help before the battle, but says nothing of a run to tell the Athenians of the victory. "So, when Persia was dust, all cried, 'To Akropolis!
    Run, Pheidippides, one race more! the meed is thy due!
    "Athens is saved, thank Pan," go shout!' He flung down his shield
    Ran like fire once more: and the space 'twixt the Fennel-field
    And Athens was stubble again, a field which a fire runs through,
    Till in he broke: 'Rejoice, we conquer!' Like wine through clay,
    Joy in his blood bursting his heart, he died--the bliss!"

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October 05, 2008

Three weeks to go...

...with three weeks to go the good news is I have a place in the London Marathon next April. Otherwise, it has been a poor week for training. I only ran once, yesterday, and what should have been a twenty mile long run ended up as a 16 miler. I had intended to go over Seaford Head, then along some of the Seven Sisters, but the wind was so strong that I realised that it would be folly to spend a lot of time near cliff edges. So, after descending to the Cuckmere, I took myself off through Friston Forest, returning by way of Litlngton and High and Over.

Time: 3:08:15
Distance: 16.08
Pace: 11.41
Ascent: 2442 ft

Three weeks till the Beachy Head Marathon, (and 29 till London

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