Nearly five years and 60 editions after initially setting up the Cirencester Athletics Club monthly newsletter I am about to cease my editorial duties. My reasons for this are many and varied and I don't intend getting into them at this stage. However, I have decided that this is therefore the perfect time to set up a personal blog. Yes, it's me being a bit self-indulgent for the first time in my life, but I think also that it may serve to help other runners in whatever small way that can be derived.
I intend posting on a weekly basis reflecting on my running experiences during that week. I will also reminisce about my long and varied running career, I have after all been racing for 40 years. So sit back, enjoy and be ready for a switchback ride! I will welcome feedback of any kind - constructive criticism is often the best way to improve things so all suggestions welcome. It will take time for me to fully develop my site so, reader(s), please be patient.
About Me
- David Wright
- I joined Ranelagh Harriers, based in Richmond, Surrey, in 1974. It gave me something to do socially between cricket seasons. Gradually the running took over, particularly as my (French) wife Claudie hated cricket. Improvements then came gradually with consistent year on year training. I also became involved with Chris Brasher, arranging running tours to New York and Barbados for many years; then being part of the birth of the London Marathon. John Bryant's history of the race records five people sitting down in The Dysart Arms to discuss the viability of such a race, based on experiencing New York: Messrs Brasher, Disley, Rowland, Hanscomb & Wright. Yep, blame me for all the suffering each April, especially as I was a pioneer of the course layout! As well as running the first two Londons, I also drove the lead vehicle a few times. In 1990 I relocated to Gloucestershire and joined Cirencester AC. My main focus is now in the west country where as well as running, I'm trying to pass on some of my experience to others and have coached/mentored three athletes to international vests with three more capable of following suit.
The ageing process
Ranelagh Centenary Race 1981
The ageing process
Same team 25 years later 2006
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