A new client   Shortly after returning from China, I got a new business client. At the end of August, she asked me to attend an accounts meeting, where her boyfriend would also be coming along. The meeting was to be held at her boyfriend’s house which lay less than a kilometre and a half […]

Meeting at the bank   The 42 kilometres I had run in China hadn’t aggravated my injury. I had expected things would get worse and had calculated with this as an unavoidable cost. The tenderness still persisted after I got home, however, and I was most frustrated and upset that there didn’t seem to be […]

Meeting Jamie again   As had eventually become a tradition, I travelled to China on the Tuesday before the marathon, arriving in Beijing on the morning of Wednesday 18th May. As I came out of customs, I immediately caught sight of Jamie, who was standing there photographing me, and we took a taxi together to […]

Tender heel   I didn’t run for the first few weeks after I got home from Amsterdam. I was exhausted and groggy and in need of restitution. After a couple of weeks, I noticed that my right heel was tender. To begin with it only hurt when I got up in the morning and walked […]

Reunited with China acquaintances   In both 2009 and 2010, I was in China in the same group as Michael, and in 2010, we were together with John. He is the runner who lost a lot of weight I wrote an article about. The two of them were going to run the Amsterdam Marathon on […]

A lovely invitation   Jamie wanted Karin and me to come on a cruise with the Crown of Scandinavia while she was working on the boat, and I found out that it left Copenhagen on Saturday 21st September and would be in Oslo on 22nd September, the day of the Oslo Marathon. To me it […]

No more marathons two Sundays in a row   I had planned to run marathons two Sundays in a row because I didn’t believe it would be a problem. I had done it in May, and I had also previously run an ultra-marathon. If you can dream it, you can do it! There can be […]

An old acquaintance   Like the marathon in Copenhagen earlier in the year, I had run this marathon a couple of years earlier. Another similarity was that I was to run marathons two weekends in succession. The outcomes were entirely different, however.   Jamie’s debut   I had chosen this run because Jamie had asked […]

Ironman   In 2001, I had the idea of completing an Ironman before I reached 50. An Ironman consists of swimming 3.8 kilometres, cycling 180 kilometres, and then running a marathon. The first Ironman was held in Hawaii on 18th February 1978 after a group of Navy SEALs had been discussing, who was in the […]