In May 2012 I was little over 1 year from reaching sixty years old and I decided to try to mark the occasion with a better than 60min completion of the Great Manchester Run 10K (story at Sixty min at 60). Before then I had last run in 1976 in a 1.5ml cross country race for leaders in a south Manchester scouting event.
Well I did it, and thoroughly enjoyed the day. What I had expected to be a one-off experience resulted in me growing to love running and since then I have completed several 10Ks, a Half Marathon for my 65th birthdays (story at Ged's 65th Half), and I regularly enjoy my local parkrun.
So, now 10 years on, it's my 70th birthday which is a few days over a year away, and I have a dream of celebrating it with a full marathon. For now it is a dream but, in that dream, this blog will culminate in my posting a time for a completed marathon.
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