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           <description><![CDATA[THANK heavens for that. After 365 days of running, my single-minded challenge to run around the British Isles came to an end at 12.05am on New Year's Day.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[PICTURE this: it's a crisp Sunday morning and you're on your hands and knees crawling on all fours across the mud flats of a river estuary. The rotting vegetable smell is retching, the feel of the gloopy mud presented in various shades of brown makes your skin crawl and the need to control your nerves with the mud clinging to your body, trying to suck you under is paramount.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[BOXING Day on the beach? Sounds appealing, but how about Boxing Day on the run?]]></description>
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           <title>Temptation is a Christmas pudding and a glass of mulled wine</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS pudding and mulled wine - what an irresistable combination for a race.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[EVER heard of Merthyr Mawr? No, nor had I until I turned up in the Mid-Glamorgan village on a cold Sunday morning in December. But I won't forget the place too quickly either.]]></description>
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           <title>I felt like a prize turkey at the end!</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[WITH the finishing line in sight, so the tension becomes greater. After today, it's 74 races down, with six to go, and put bluntly there is no way I'm not going to complete this epic journey. I've told friends that even if I was to pick up a major injury now, I would take pain-killing injections and limp over the line if need-be.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[LIVERPOOL had never seen anything quite like it; 6,000 Santa Clauses parading through the streets of the city in a bid to set a new world record.]]></description>
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           <title>Running through the pain barrier quickly</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[I COULD get quite used to this running on drugs malarky. Not that I would ever condone drugs use, but, since sustaining those couple of cracked ribs earlier this month and dosing myself up with painkillers before races, I've not looked back!]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[AFTER 71 races I've had my fair share of race mementoes. Besides the usual mugs, t-shirts and medals, I've had a sack of potatoes, beer and a lovely towel thrown into a goody bag.]]></description>
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           <description><![CDATA[THE Grand Union Canal was once the busiest waterway in the country. The M1 of its time, a 137-mile route stretching from London through the Chiltern Hills, rural Northamptonshire and Warwickshire, and into the suburbs of Birmingham.]]></description>
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