Edinburgh Marathon

Yeah, no, absolutely.

No, I, but for, when my, my youngest brother ran the Edinburgh Marathon, what have you, I, I went to, I happened to be in Edinburgh that week, you know, and I went in the s- on the Sunday morning, I think it was, to actually see him, and I said, "I was up there in the pen with the rest of the elite athletes.

I couldn't see you anywhere." [laughs]

[laughs] That's just mean.

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But in the first two years I couldn't do anything because, uh, when I had moved and then tried to figure out work again, and then we had a, we had our son, so it was like a, a rollercoaster for the first two years, and I'd just gotten married, so, so many things happening at the same time.

But then, um, last year there was the Edinburgh Marathon Festival and I was like, "Okay, there's a 10K, let me just try it." And I did the first one, and surprisingly to myself, I was able to finish in 49-

49:23.

Yeah.

Um, beautiful part of the world.

Um, wasn't exercising, gaining weight, and just went, "No, I need to do something here." Signed up for a half marathon, um, the Edinburgh Marathon Festival.

Ran that, saw the marathon finishers and went, "No, never.

Not doing that.

So what some people seem to think is an important question, what was your marathon PB?

Well that was in, I did Edinburgh Marathon again in 2025 and I did 3 hours 7 minutes and 32 seconds and then I did London this year and I got 3 hours 7 minutes and 9 seconds so that's my PV but I mean I've never actually, I think when I do a marathon I'm not very good at tapering and I'm not very good at like doing workouts like speed workouts I think most I would do is like a park run and I don't look at my watch like during the Edinburgh one I didn't look at my watch at all and London I like tried to stick with the three-hour pacer but that fell off and then yeah so maybe if I actually trained for it I'd be a bit

better but Talking about training, are you in a running

club? So when I was in university at Aberdeen, I was kind of looking at ways of meeting more people that were more similar minded to me.