Month: January 2023

I am on my way back from Madeira to London. The marathon medal is in my bag. While it was my 71st in now my twelfth year of marathon running, it was more than that. Musing over the cause of an ever-worsening running experience for years and eventually not being able to finish my last marathon attempt in April 2022, had led to a blog post that I dropped just before running this one. I had realised that slow, unnoticed…

Last year I had my first-ever marathon DNF. I know! Shocking! After 11 years of running marathons without a single DNF. (In case you found this blog from outside the running universe: DNF at stands for “Did Not Finish”). It was my marathon attempt number 71, in April 2022. Yes, it took me nine months to write about it, mainly because I not only decided to stop running but also to stop trying to figure out how to get back…