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 I ran my 2nd marathon in York and was thrilled to come away with a new personal best time of 4:44:47. Happy with my marathon PB. Why Yorkshire Marathon After running my first marathon in Manchester last year, I wanted to challenge myself again to run another. I entered the London Marathon ballot, didn't get in, so had to find another marathon that checked all the boxes.  I wanted something relatively flat, easy to get to, and in the autumn. Yorkshire Marathon met all the criteria. Training with John It would feel weird to recap a marathon without having written anything about the training previously, so here's a summary of training since July.  This year I trained with my boyfriend, John, who ran the marathon with me. I was originally hesitant of running another marathon this year because this was going to be our first full summer together since we started dating, and training for a marathon limits your free time.  When I told this to John, he secretly entered the L...

I traveled 10 hours by bus during a rail strike, all to run 16 gorgeous miles in the Yorkshire Dales. A trail race, but a finish in a parking lot. Why Yorkshire Dales Festival Earlier this year, I read a travel article that mentioned the town of Settle in north-west England. It looked nice and I saw with a railcard, I get could advanced tickets for £20 return. (How that fact would later come to mock me!) At the time, I checked if there were any races there, and the only ones I found were on dates I wasn't free. Flash forward a few months and I get an email about the Yorkshire Dales Festivals, a series of runs and walks starting and ending in Settle. The 16 mile route slotted in well with the marathon training schedule I'm doing this summer.  The journey When I booked this race in April, I wasn't anticipating there being a national rail strike on the day I was meant to get down. I seriously considered not going, but in the end, I thought this race was too pretty to pass u...