A true inspiration!<\/strong><\/p>\nI wanted to take the opportunity of posting this blog to highlight a truly inspirational and legendary runner who I have been honoured to run with and be a member of the same club with. What makes this man even more remarkable is that I was completely unaware of his motivation and story until recently. I will never be able to do his story justice and so I would invite you to visit this link to read more about him… http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/stillbirth-rates-nhs-mums-mothers-births-west-midlands<\/p>\n
In memory of his daughter Amber and to raise money for Tommy’s, the baby charity he ran the Royal Parks Half Marathon today BAREFOOT and my sources tell me not only that he finished but he finished in 1 hour 32 minutes…flipping heck! The nicest and most genuine man you will ever meet and to me someone who I look up to, both literally (he is very tall) and metaphorically. If you would like to sponsor Duncan there is still time at… https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/AmberMallison3<\/p>\n
Finally <\/strong><\/p>\nI wanted to plug a motivation song that I like at the moment by The Script called Superheroes, give it a listen.<\/p>\n
Also wanted to recommend a book I’m halfway through called The Ghost Runner by Bill Jones. The book tells the story of John Tarrant, well worth a read.<\/p>\n
Well done to all those who ran, raced or rested today…keep living the runner’s dream!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome back to Nick Twomey’s running adventures and to my blog…it’s been a few months but I thought I would post a blog today! What’s been happening Nick? It has been a turbulent few months for my running with life’s demands taking its toll on my ability to get out and train as much as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6502,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/6502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/club.runthrough.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}