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There comes a time in any race or project when you need to dig deep into your reserves of stamina and focus on the finish line.
For double Olympic gold medal rower Eric Murray, the ground-up renovation of a 1912 villa in Cambridge has turned out to be a marathon rather than a sprint, but after nearly a year of working nights and weekends alongside his day job in business development and coaching, the end is in sight.
“It has been both bigger and harder than what I expected,” he says.
Although there have been none of the absolute horror stories he had been warned about by friends, he has made a few unsettling discoveries, like pulling down a wall and finding that the ceiling
