by Gavin Sandford | Sep 2, 2014 | 45Marathons45Days, Blog |
When running on the majority of the roads there is a constant and heavy companion sitting on your shoulders. It whispers to you and promises constant unseen dangers from the predatory traffic thundering and snarling down onto you. This mortal threat stretches,...
by Gavin Sandford | Sep 1, 2014 | 45Marathons45Days, Blog, Press |
On Saturday Carole Foster from BBC’s Midlands Today interviewed Gavin outside Birmingham Children’s Hospital:...
by Gavin Sandford | Aug 28, 2014 | 45Marathons45Days, Blog |
I trundle.. I wince.. I trundle and guess what!? I WINCE!!! On and on and on! Great..bird plop on me.. luck..luck..yeaaaahhhh right… gueeerrrr!!! Lolipy heavy head.. Avoid the cracks.. Someone come cut my right leg off.. It’s as though my New balance...
by Gavin Sandford | Aug 28, 2014 | 45Marathons45Days, Blog |
I am gratefully armed to take on the hustling streets of Manchester with my first lady, my gal Hayley and good friends Robin and Martin. A small and happy band. Thanks beyond measure extends to them all. Behind the scenes at base camp. My man Ben is holding the fort...
by Gavin Sandford | Aug 28, 2014 | 45Marathons45Days, Blog |
Tormented weather screams across the long battered surfaces of the Pennines. The undergrowth is haggard and wiry and shrugs the weather with ease. I wish that I could do the same. There is little to see. Rain never rests and hastily shivers and slithers to warmer...
by Gavin Sandford | Aug 26, 2014 | 45Marathons45Days, Blog |
I leave the stifling but sadly comforting confines of my box and I am met by a blanket of rain and an onslaught of sounds. The most piercing being the Taaaatttttt aa taaaaaatt!! Taaaatttttt aa taaaaaatt!! Taaaatttttt aa taaaaaatt!! that mercilessly invades my ears....
