1997 was the year I started uni and a new life in Glasgow.
While joining the athletics team may seem like the logical next step to
progress my running that didn’t happen. I was keen to try something different
so joined the karate club. Running a couple of miles too and from the club was
as far as my running went. I also frequented many of Glasgow’s other clubs not
so well known for their sporting prowess. (The Garage, Archaos and Trash to
name a few). Late nights and excess were aplenty. Despite way too much
indulgence I did gradually develop a good training discipline training most
days of the week to try and counter the late nights. In my final year of uni I
started running 10k once a week with some guys from my course and one of the
guys decided he wanted to run Glasgow half marathon it was 2001. Having no clue
I hacked together some training and made the classic mistake of too much too
soon, shin splits came a calling so my training wasn’t exactly ideal but I ran 1:30
ish which seemed ok to me who was more used to jumping around in a white suit
and a coloured belt around my waist. Shortly after I left Bonnie Scotland to
work and travel. In the sunnier clims of Australia I started a run group at a
gym I worked at and did the same when I returned to Glasgow.
After a stint working in a gym in Glasgow I got the job as
the manager Run 4 It ( a new running shop and brand new business at the time). In my interview I told them I’d ran cross
country at school and ran the odd 10k and a half marathon but I hoped to do a
bit more running. Joining a running club seemed like a good idea.
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