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Peter Laird – A life transformed at Brathay.

UncategorisedBy Frank Wainwright25th August 2025Leave a comment

  (in video, text and pictures. donations can be made via my fundraising page) In the early 1950s Peter Laird was an out of school worker at Albion Motors in Glasgow and went for an experience that today we might describe as teambuilding. His company sent him to Brathay Hall, Brathay Trust on Lake Windermere…

Touring and Exploring South Africa and Running Comrades

UncategorisedBy Frank Wainwright17th July 2025

(scroll down for 1000 Hills Parkrun and the Comrades Marathon Report)     On the Hoof in South Africa Frank Wainwright explored South Africa whilst visiting Smollan in Johannesburg and running Comrades Marathon. If you travel for the first time to South Africa beware that family and friends might be concerned. The city crime rate…

Cardiff to London – DNF at 115 miles

UncategorisedBy Frank Wainwright13th May 2025

*Cardiff to London, 200 miles, water and snacks on average every 25 miles. A very pared down extreme ultra with no exterior support or pacers allowed and no specific event route signage. So, I made it to Streatley, 115 miles, 3 mins before the cut off. The sun baking off the white chalk of the…

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