We are in! Both myself and Richard receive an email from the Boston Athletic Association confirming our acceptance into the 2020 Boston Marathon.

After a few more attempts when I fell short, I finally get another Boston Qualifying time, at the Chilliwack Marathon, British Columbia, Canada. I have a 6 minute 22 second time buffer, you usually have to run faster than your age group qualifier as Boston has a capped field size, and the greater the number of qualifiers below this, the larger the buffer time needed.

We get some bad news. The Reykjavik Marathon has made a mistake with one of their marker points. Although the race is AIMS registered and accurately measured, a turn around point at the end of a loop back was moved in temporarily to ease traffic congestion before the start of the 2018 race - and then not moved back again. As a result the course was 213 metres short. Our Boston Marathon applications are rejected because of this. Oh well - we are just going to have to run fast over the next twelve months and aim to qualify for the 2020 Boston. We are going back to Seville in February....