Thames Path

Get yourself signed up for that one.

And then next season is... kicking into gear lots and lots of entries coming in for 100 Hills 50k in March great way to start the year South Downs Way 50 in April the kind of the perfect early season 50 the big one to be aware of Thames Path 100 which is 1st of May next year there are 13 places left available Once they've gone, we will close the entrance list and move to waiting list.

So that is the first race that will sell out for 2027.

And just a reminder that they will tick up to that point.

It's a huge, huge achievement and not to be taken lightly.

It's essentially the way I described it, essentially a race in and of itself.

You can't peak for anything other than the Thames Path 100 and then literally hang on through the recovery stages.

recovery sort of taper for each race that come they just come too quickly to get any meaningful training done between each event of course someone like james bucks the trends and fits so much in that it's literally staggering um but for most it is essentially the whole year ends up being one one event so congratulations to all 14 of those athletes We had 247, I think, start the race.

Jenny has been on the podium of Centurion races before.

She won the Thames Path 100 in 2025, but this year she really stepped up, taking a massive chunk of time off her previous 100 mile PB and winning Autumn 100 in 16 hours, 45 minutes.

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So learning to kind of just grind it out is probably one of the big things that I learned from those.

When you ran the Grand Slam, for listeners who aren't familiar, this is the four main, I guess, Centurion 100 milers.

So the Thames Path, South Downs Way, North Downs Way and Autumn.

You won the first of those, Thames Path, last year, 2108.

While I'm here, of course, in terms of trying to stay fit, do a lot of running.

I know when you interview, Mike Lane does some truly absurd running, but has recently run 100 miles along the Thames Path.

I'm not quite at that level, but try and do a lot of half marathons.

And I follow a lot of sports, particularly in soccer, a team from Glasgow called Celtic, and then in pretty much any sport, anything involving Scotland.

Neil has paid €205 for the Berlin Marathon.

Uh, Andrew, Midpack Runner, Thames Path, T- sorry, Thames Path 50K was £150, but he didn't mind paying it 'cause of what he got back.

And I think the lo- cost of local races are much more affordable.

Yeah.

I absolutely agree.

Yeah.

Uh, Sally Ordish, Thames Path 100K, £196, but well worth it.

Aid stations every 15K, which give you everything.

[laughs] There's loads of Bs out there, so many.

Uh, Nicola Waite, "Plenty of planes over Thames Path, Woolwich, for my 300th parkrun." No longer arbitrary.

That's, uh, plenty of planes.

Are you sure? I think it's only, like, one or two isn't there in the morning 'cause that's not far from London City.

Yeah.

You can literally walk past the stadium down the Thames Path and not be recognized-

Yeah.

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And I'd just disappear.

and he because he got me into running in the first place it was fine and he because he was very supportive and then we'd run it was quite you know we'd take the kids at the weekend we might go and run along the Thames path or something and in those days I mean this is 21 my oldest is 22 so they weren't really running buggies there wasn't I think they sort of had one or two but there wasn't really a thing and we had this massive really heavy double buggy that we both sort of shoved along the river and

desperation though you do it i would think i went through about three buggies because i was like i am getting out and i will the poor kids going

i you know i think they really they really enjoy it my my kids when they were like when they were younger really enjoyed it and i used to take them to park run and you know running when you're when you're running most people when you've got well i've not many people when you've got some very small kids are doing crazy ultras so the amount of time you're out of the house is minimal and I think it's really important for your head and your space and your time and also probably for the kids as well and so as long as there's somebody there with them or you take them with you and then I used to take them to parkrun and they loved parkrun until they were about 13 and then they really didn't want to be taken to parkrun particularly on Christmas day they've never let me forget