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The running man...

31 days ago I went for a run, a run around Glasgow city centre. It was all good fun. It was my first 10k run of three I was taking part in for SAMH through September. I decided I needed to sign up to a few runs and thought the best thing to help motivate me would be to raise some money for charity (also meaning I couldn't back out). Training went reasonably well, in so much as on the day I actually felt I could do it... 1 hour 1 minute & 9 seconds later I had actually finished a 10k run, and without stopping too! On 14th September I donned the gear again, this time in Kilmacolm... Two weeks extra training under my belt & a bit of determination to do better than the last time. Little did I know the wind, rain and hills of the Scottish countryside were conspiring to make it difficult for me to do that. 59 mins & 30 seconds later I rounded the straight... There it was, the finish line... For the first time in years I sprinted! After a nervous couple of hours I get the