First Claim Harrow AC - joined 1974, second claim TH&H joined 2004. Member of RRC
Vice President - Harrow AC
Represented Middlesex at Schoolboy and Senior level.
Represented GB or England 14 times at Ultra Distance.
1st Anglo-Celtic Plate 100k 2002 - 7.17.06.
14th World 100k Championships, Taiwan, Republic of China, 2003.
Awarded the RRC John Jewell Medal, 2005.
AAA 100k Champion 2003,
AAA 24 Hour Champion 2008 - 151m / 243k.
Represented England at the Commonwealth Games Ultra Championships, Keswick, 2009.
South of England V50 Cross Country Champion 2010.
33 successive sub 3 hour London Marathons - 1981 to 2013. (Guinness World Record)
Ran 3,100 miles across the USA in 2011 with Steve Pope from San Francisco to New York in 79 days 22 hours. Picture shows endless Nevada!
Has run sub 3 hours on 50 occasions
Selected as a test athlete for the 2012 London Olympic Marathon course.
Failed attempt at the Bob Graham Round 2017.
London Marathon Ever-present 1981 - 2025.
Awarded the Spirit of the London Marathon Medal February 2020.
Ran 999 miles from John O'Groats to Land's End in June/July 2023.
BMAF M65 2000m Steeplechase Champion 2024 and 2025
England Masters athlete 2025
Contributing author to ‘Across America on foot’ available via Amazon.
Major influences
Roger Bannister, Ron Hill, Dave Bedford, Tony Bush, Phil O'Brien, Julia Finill, Pete Lindsell, John Legge, John Bryant, Mick McGeoch, Ken Jones, Dan Tunstall-Pedoe, Andy Smith, Dave Briant, Geoff and Susan Wightman, Stephen Moore, Norman Wilson, Steve Pope, Bruce Tulloh, Jim Shapiro.