Blackheath & Bromley runner Colin Poole has run an astonishing five marathons in October, not only this, but they have been on a variety of terrains and in various countries.

He started with the Jersey Marathon at the start of October where he was the first athlete over the age of 70 to finish.

The following weekend he travelled to Italy to run the Carpi Marathon a special race to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Dorando Pietre's marathon run in the 1908 London Olympics. Pietre was the athlete who collapsed in the stadium while in the lead and was disqualified after officials helped him across the finish line.

Next it was back to Britain for the Abingdon Marathon where Colin was the second over 70 to finish.

Three marathons in three weekends is something of a challenge but he followed this with two in two days. On the last Saturday of the month he was in action in the Beachyhead Marathon, a multi terrain event run over the Seven Sisters in Eastbourne, not an easy course. The following day he opted for something a little flatter, the Crawley Track Marathon, over 26 miles of running round an Athletics track.

This was his 19th marathon of the year and he has now completed 235 in total as he approaches his 72nd birthday. Colin is one of a number of runners at the Club who have completed 100 marathons and the most recent to achieve this was Nigel Webb when he completed the Beachy Head. Others from Blackheath who are members of this elite group are Harry Martin, Dave Lewis, John Turner, Dick Griffin, Brain Smith, Dave King and Ray Bennett.

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