I had just come off the back of a disappointing run at the Great North Run. I say disappointing as that’s how I felt initially. I didn’t get close to the time I wanted and my body felt like I’d been struck multiple blows by Thor’s magical hammer. But then I sat back and really thought about it. Time was truly irrelevant as I had just run my first half marathon, further than I had ever run before. Only a few months before, even the thought of covering
