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ByJohn MayHottest day of the year so far. I have just come inside having fallen asleep after lunch in the garden and realise that tomorrow I may well resemble a lobster. It’ll be a lobster that’s running 10k in St Albans, and I guess they are few and far between, but it will be a lobster…
42.2k in Berlin
ByJohn MayBerlin is a beautiful, chilled city. Its Marathon appears to be run by the friendliest people ever – efficient, but human. Lots of smiling marshalls, excellent provision of water and the German equivalent of Gatorade. Thousands of bananas, ready peeled and thrust at runners as if we were performing chimps. And lots of very, very…
The Today Programme features Career Academies UK
ByJohn MayI have just spent a fascinating morning with Evan Davis of the BBC Today programme and Sir Win Bischoff, recording an item to be broadcast over the Christmas holidays. Win and Evan interviewed a number of Career Academy students at Sir George Monoux College about their experiences of the programme. The young people were superb…
An evening in Shibuya
ByJohn MayI was told by the concierge at my hotel that Shibuya is ‘young and exciting’. She was right on both counts. The district almost pulsed with a dizzying tide of human movement… I wish I’d videod the crowds crossing the road. It made Piccadilly Circus look calm. I wandered through a number of department stores,…
20 miles is a long way
ByJohn MayAfter last week’s debacle, I was a bit worried about today’s long run – one of two I need to complete before the Berlin Marathon at the end of September. But I need not have worried. It was hard work, but actually quite fun. I ran the same route as a couple of weeks ago,…
Erfurt: Old Friends, Late Trains and a Missing Apple Strudel
ByJohn MayMark and I are back on our travels, this time in Erfurt in Germany for the annual gathering of the Friends of Scouting in Europe. These visits have become a part of the year that I particularly enjoy: a chance to catch up with old friends, make new ones and, more importantly, see something of…

