Marathon Fever happens in York

Last week was a week of marathon fever over in the York store. The photo (below) shows Darran Bilton and Richard Lowson of Up & Running York enjoying pasta at the London expo before turning out cracking runs at the 2011 Virgin London Marathon on April 17th.
Darran finished 60th overall in a time of 2 hours 31 minutes and 6 seconds to finish first man over 45, while Richard managed to fly round the 26.2 miles in 2 hours 43 minutes and 6 seconds to finish 220th overall and 165th in his age category.
Meanwhile the third member of staff at York, Andy Fawcett, managed to excel in his first marathon the weekend before at Brighton where he finished in 3 hours 58 minutes and 21 seconds.
Just goes to show you what goes on in our stores, and proves that we are running shops 'run by runners for runners'.

 Richard Lawson, the fastest beard in York..... if not the whole of Yorkshire. Is there a faster beard out there?  More from Richard on the next post.  It all about his experience.