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A year after my first painful, sweaty run for the Great South Run, I’ve now logged 1,219 miles and ten races, including a full marathon.

Running, cycling and more, I passed the halfway point of my 2013 miles in 2013 challenge, reaching 1,011 self powered miles with 1,002 still left to go.

Running the Two Castles Run from Warwick Castle to Kenilworth Castle, I set another personal best of 46 minutes and 39 seconds, and passed 1,000 miles for the year.

After a short run around Amsterdam, I came back to my hotel to find the Crowne Plaza staff had prepared a surprise runners pack waiting for me.

In May I completed my first full marathon in Edinburgh, part of 168 self powered miles that took my year’s running and cycling total past 952 miles so far.

In April I completed 192.1 self powered miles of running and cycling, including a new personal best at the Plymouth Half Marathon, taking my year’s total past 784 miles.

Running the hilly Plymouth Half Marathon, my last before my first full marathon in Edinburgh, I set a new personal best of 1 hour 41 minutes and 48 seconds.

After a five day juice detox from Jason Vale’s Big Juice Spring Clean, I lost seven pounds despite taking a break for my wife’s birthday meal.

I ran this month’s Facebook FiveK from a hotel in Sao Paulo and smashed my personal best, finishing in 20 minutes and 39 seconds.

Fifteen years on from losing my dad to cancer at 50, I look at the weight I gained, the fitness I lost, and how running the Great South Run brought me back to him.

Ahead of the Big Juice Spring Clean, I listed everything needed for Jason Vale’s 5lbs in 5 days Juice Master Detox, from apples and carrots to beetroot, kale and avocados.

In month three of my 2013 self powered miles challenge I ran two half marathons on a plant based diet, cutting 6 minutes off my personal best, taking my yearly total to 592.5 miles.