You can’t keep a good marathon runner down. Herts MS Therapy supporter David Lewis, known to the charity as Mr Marathon, will be running for us in this year’s London Marathon on April 27. He has run more than 930 marathons in total!
David, who is originally from nearby Welwyn Garden City, first competed in the London Marathon in 1983 when he was 28 years-old. Now residing in Littlehampton, West Sussex, he celebrated his 70th birthday last year and decided to take it easy, playing a bit of golf, travelling and catching up with a few old friends. He also met a lovely lady named Katie too, as David explains:
“I met Katie in my local gym and we started running together and from that we started dating. We have already been on several long-distance trips together.”
David has visited Toronto, France and Singapore twice, Portugal, Italy, Malaysia, three times and Thailand twice. Nearer to home he climbed Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Mount Snowdon. “I was so busy I only managed 10 marathons but completed the London Marathon in under four hours.”
David has just begun training for this year’s event and recently ran 43km over the South Downs. He lists Rio de Janeiro, Honolulu, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Vietnam, Toronto Waterfront and Perth as some of his favourite marathons destinations.
But David’s not only interested in running in exotic, faraway places, he’s also run round Brighton and Hove Albion’s football ground 62 times, completed 82 laps of Shepton Mallet prison and run 365 miles from Worthing to Scarborough in 12 days just for the fun of it! His latest jaunt saw him run from Bognor Pier to Brighton Pier, a distance of 27 miles.