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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.

I ran my first marathon in Edinburgh on my birthday, finishing in 4 hours and 3 minutes despite stupid heat, a struggle at mile 15, and a timely nudge from a fellow runner.

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.

With my first full marathon ten weeks away, on my birthday, I looked back at a winter of races: a muddy Disney 5k, a wet Gloucester 10k, and two half marathons under 1 hour 45.