Runner profile: Dan Owen
Number of Clarendon events completed: One (2015 - full marathon)
Running the Clarendon Marathon last year was an absolute dream. Stunning day, magnificent landscape and a beautiful course replete with fantastic spirit and the best volunteers imaginable.
By JJ Heath-Caldwell
In 2013, having by then been involved in the management of the event for a number of years, I thought it would be great to actually enter and participate myself. Running the half that year was great fun and so the following year, 2014, I entered the full marathon, 26.2 miles from Salisbury to Winchester.
I have been running since my initiation through school cross country back in the days when I was lucky enough to run in Windsor Great Park. This early years experience has meant that running and racing in the countryside was the reason I ran, and continue to do so. The Clarendon was one of the first trail races that I had come across that was not advertised a cross country. It appealed to my love of running away from traffic and Tarmac.
I ran the first Clarendon marathon because the originator/organiser (Paul Elderkin) was a keen hash house harrier - I hope everyone has heard of them (just Google hash house harriers if not). Every week on our hash runs, Paul would be flashing his entry forms around persuading people to enter. He would even turn up at events like the Grizzly or London Marathon to hand out entry forms. 
Steve Goodwin will be running his 100th accompanied by many of his friends.
Steve’s interest in running only began in 1982 when the 1st Newark Half Marathon took place in his home town. Up until then from the age of 12 his main sporting interest was tennis, playing team tennis for two local Nottinghamshire clubs.
Carole Loader: “Always find it difficult to describe myself other than I'm a little bit crazy!”
Receiving his medal as last year’s Clarendon Marathon [2013] first male, meant so much more to Nathan Montague than just coming in first in one of his favourite events.
You may find it hard to believe, but Alana entered last year’s Clarendon Marathon [2013] as a novice, never having run a marathon, or even a half marathon before, and to her delight and surprise, was the first lady over the winning line!
Caught first bus to Broughton, Hampshire situated midway between Salisbury and Winchester, two beautiful cathedral cities linked by the Clarendon Way, a 26 mile country path over picturesque undulating landscape frequently travelled by the ancient Kings and Queens of England.
I’m pleased to report that just after 3pm on Sunday 6th October, I became a marathoner and walked the Clarendon Way! I started at 8.30am in the mist and walked up hill and down dale as the sun came out, through woodland, through villages, through fields, across a few roads and up a few more hills before finally staggering across the finish line in a time of 6:36: 19. The course followed the majority of the route of the Clarendon Way, with a few extra twists and turns to make it marathon distance.
