Sydney Marathon, 31st August 2025

Following an injury-plagued build-up, it was with some trepidation that Craig Swanson travelled down under for the Sydney Marathon. Indeed, when asked about tapering following a faster than planned parkrun the day before, Craig’s response was “I find that to taper, you must have trained for this in the first place!”.

He needn’t have worried, and ran well, even managing to enjoy the race and the atmosphere. In his own words: “3rd slowest time but the most fun I’ve had in a race belting out classics with the 4hr pace group in the first 3 hours before reality struck”. Craig completed the course in 4:12:39.

Craig has now completed all 7 of the World’s Major Marathons, a fantastic achievement – well done!