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I have now completed the run and the video herewith shows me in a distressed state crossing the finish line.  I’m the small guy with the abnormal gait in the bright yellow top and peculiar haircut.  I am visible after 15 seconds in the middle of the screen ‘running’ near the white dotted line.

s this is the organisation’s 25th anniversary year, and because I wanted to run the Berlin Half Marathon, I thought I'd try and raise a bob or two for the great work my colleagues do in Glasgow for so many deserving refugees we have in this fine city.

However, I only realised once I was on the plane (and it was all becoming horribly real) that it was almost exactly – to within a few days – 25 years since I moved to Berlin to live.  This seemed to invest the adventure with some higher meaning, especially when I considered that I'd be staying a mere 300 metres from the very first apartment I had in the city ... aaah, the memories…

Unfortunately the following morning I had to run.  Some of my sponsors had given me an extra incentive to ‘go for it’ by pledging a little extra if I completed the course in under 100 minutes.  Somehow or other I managed it – 1 hour 39 minutes 53 seconds  - seven seconds inside the target time.

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