From Last to First: A long-distance runner's journey from failure to success

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Not really," he insisted. "Remember this was an era when Britain boasted Steve Cram, Seb Coe and Steve Ovett head to head, Daley Thompson and Tessa Sanderson, so an Olympic bronze medallist wasn't going to suddenly become a millionaire. The spin-off was colossal for some but not for me." If the likes of de Castella and Salazar are struggling it does you the world of good. You feel less tired." This is a very typical example and the MSM are always happy to augment it and add to the fearmongering. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/boris-johnson-says-he-wants-to-relax-2-metre-physical-distancing-rule

A time of nostalgia, to bathe in an era of great local success on the world scene? Or a ridiculous challenge for Spedding, now 51 and out of serious training for the last 12 years? Probably both if the truth were faced. In my view the medical profession lies somewhere far below journalism and estate agents in the moral integrity stakes. Even so I was still two yards behind Magnani with 50 yards left to the finish. I caught him with a yard to go and instinctively lunged at where I thought the line was. We were both credited with the same time but I was an inch ahead of him!"Jones's pit stop had commentators, viewers and Spedding flummoxed, as the Welshman first dropped off the pace, appearing to be holding his hamstring – in reality Jones was tugging at his shorts to clean himself up a little – and then allowing Spedding to open up a lead. However, a relieved Jones was now ready to make a move on the race leader, his lighter load and pain-free stomach allowing him to pull level as the pair approached a tunnel near the Embankment. These, and cancers, are conditions of systemic and cellular breakdown caused by increasing age. They are nothing to do with diet. I am old enough to have been aware of old people having diabetes and cancers before the ‘obesity’ crisis and Government steering people to a high carbohydrate diet. I was deeply satisfied. This was the most satisfying race of my career. I couldn't have done more - the other two were better than me. But I beat some very big names."

Doubtless the health establishment and journalists in the pay of Big Carb will queue up to denounce this book – if they can’t get away with studiously ignoring it. Loftily, and very annoyingly, ‘experts’ will quote reams of ‘research’ because these days anything can easily be refuted with ‘science’. And that in a sense is the issue. We now have a bloated university sector full of academics who will produce whatever false orthodoxy you want for a fee. The Enlightenment values of reason and empiricism are being eclipsed by Counter Enlightenment superstition and the witch hunting of heretics who dare to dissent. Before endorsing the book I asked a nutritionist friend to vet it. She said that it was what she and many of her colleagues had been saying privately for years but none of them dared say publicly for fear of losing their licences to practise. Enough said. I had run conservatively because I'd never done the distance before and didn't want to risk blowing up. I did the same in the London Marathon and won again. People should be motivated to help others (as well as themselves) rather than battling for money, power, influence and dominance.Certain businesses are being allowed to reopen but with strict rules attached. This process has been given the sinister, Orwellian title of ‘the new normal’. Apparently, we will be allowed to return to ‘normal’ if we stay two meters apart (or ‘one metre plus’) and wear face masks. There is nothing ‘normal’ about this. It will destroy the hospitality industry, theatres and sporting events. It will cause a huge spike in mental illness and stress. It will be of profound detriment to children’s education. The virus has run its course and is almost gone. If there are 65 million people in the UK, there will currently be 64.99 million people who do not have this virus and, therefore, cannot pass it on to anyone else. You’ll have to stop,” said Spedding. It’s believed Jones took advantage of an underpass, away from prying eyes, and barely broke stride as he relieved the problem. He went on to win in 2:08.16. “I didn’t shake hands with him at the finish, but that wasn’t because he’d beaten me,” Spedding later confided. The podium was set upon a specially-constructed stage surrounded by fountains and fronted by a 60-strong symphony orchestra." My mother and I discussed “New Normal – end off?” this afternoon. Concluded Gov’t like the control ‘Fear’ has given them and will insist it continues until vaccine created or public rebel en masse across UK

The reason therefore why so many old people have died is because people are living longer and they are the ones with the old-age related diseases. The virus is not selecting according to age, but medical condition. It was a carefully crafted, well thought out presentation, built around some wonderful photos of hairy top lipped 70s and 80s athletes (not East German shot putters by the way) and archive film footage that Charlie himself had spliced together from his two greatest races highlighting the key moments and what made them so important.Covid 19 science? Summed up by one SAGE interviewed: “I’m scared, better safe than sorry, I want to hide”– everyone must be compelled to emulate her Then one day we had a race over two miles of pathways around the school. A few set off at a brisk pace but, once out of sight, dropped down to a walk. discovered that he’s now due the bronze medal from the 20km walk at 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, thanks to the retrospective banning of the Russian gold medallist, Lopes had just disappeared. He was one of my running heroes and he just was a complete class apart. I only wish I'd had longer as a marathon runner," admitted Charlie. "It took me 16 years of toil and sweat to get to an Olympic medal. I'd begun running seriously when I was 16 and I was 32 when I had my glorious year in 1984. But the wait only made it that much sweeter.

In 1985 he set a PB and English Marathon record of 2:08.33 (which stood until 2014) when he finished second behind Steve Jones in the London Marathon. He is the fourth fastest British marathon runner after Jones, Mo Farah and Callum Hawkins. He represented England in the marathon event, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. [3] [4] My wildest dream had come true and I'd performed to the very best of my ability," he told me. "What more could I want?Charlie Spedding has never received the full #84,000 prize money he won in the greatest marathon finish ever witnessed.