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Tim Grose

Tim Grose

.Net Developer at CGI; founder of UK running rankings sites Power of 10 and Run Britain Rankings; running YouTuber with 50k+ subscribers

Jul 9, 2026

14:22
Yeah.
14:22
So I thought, "Well, I probably won't be at sub 2:30." Then I got an injury quite, uh, before the, before the 2004 race, so I didn't really run for the last three weeks, which in a way was a blessing in disguise because I didn't really know about tapers and all of that.
14:37
And, you know, realistically, you, you wouldn't be running much anyway, would you? I mean, I wouldn't sort of like advise anyone to have three weeks off and, um, do nothing.
14:45
I think people like this Messy Happy seem [laughs] to do that sort of approach.
14:48
But [laughs] I think for me, I need to actually keep running, at least mentally.
14:52
And I, I got round that race somehow, and I think almost in, on, you know, on one leg.
14:56
And then, and then I thought, "Well, obviously having done it the first year," and I thought, "Well, 2:38's not bad.

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26:36
But is there anything like that really stands out to you?

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