Hostage to hero

HOW DEEP CONNECTIONS, INDOMITABLE WILLPOWER AND A DRIVE TO MAKE A POSITIVE IMPACT POWERED LEON ‘SWEETS’ LEWIS TO BECOME THE FIRST PERSON TO RUN THE LENGTH OF JAMAICA

Ordinary runners doing extraordinary things

Barely cushioned shoes, string vests, love lost and found: running marathons was different back in 1981, remembers Chris Hunton

Jazz Turner reflects on her recent record-setting around Britain voyage and her decision to turn down a hospice bed and ‘get out into the English Channel and turn right’

For many runners, a marathon finish line is once-in-a-lifetime, but for a select few, it’s merely the first step towards the blue-and-yellow T-shirt of the 100 Marathon Club. What drives those hardy souls to reach such an incredible milestone – and how do they get there?

Wildly fluctuating temperatures, punishing verticality, brushes with mountain lions – the Grand Canyon’s Rim to Rim to Rim endurance run is not for the faint-hearted. Duncan Craig takes on the ‘big red ditch’