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196 <main id="main" class="site-main" role="main"> 197 198 199 200<article id="post-3" class="post-3 page type-page status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry tag-10k tag-708859 tag-5k tag-70-3 tag-breatheunity tag-half-iron tag-half-marathon tag-ironman tag-love-pacing tag-marathon tag-pace tag-pacing tag-racepacing tag-run tag-runnersworld tag-runnersworlduk tag-running tag-triathlon tag-ukrunchat tag-ultra tag-ultra-marathon tag-visorclub tag-xempo"> 201 202 <header class="entry-header"> 203 <h2 class="entry-title">About</h2> </header><!-- .entry-header --> 204 205 <div class="entry-content"> 206 207 <div class="featured-image"> 208 209 <img width="365" height="365" src="https://i0.wp.com/pickupthepacepaul.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_4547-1.jpg?resize=365%2C365&ssl=1" class="attachment-gateway-post-image size-gateway-post-image wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="5027" data-permalink="https://pickupthepacepaul.com/img_4547-1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/pickupthepacepaul.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_4547-1.jpg?fit=1296%2C864&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1296,864" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="IMG_4547-1.JPG" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/pickupthepacepaul.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_4547-1.jpg?fit=748%2C499&ssl=1" /> 210 </div><!-- .featured-image --> 211 212 <p> </p> 213<ul> 214<li><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>10k PB- 37:27 – British 10k 2012</strong></span></li> 215</ul> 216<ul> 217<li><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">Half marathon PB- 1:23:25 – Bath Half Marathon 2011</span></strong></li> 218</ul> 219<ul> 220<li><span style="color:#0000ff;"><strong>Marathon PB- 3:08:53 – London Marathon 2013</strong></span></li> 221</ul> 222<ul> 223<li><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">100k PB – 11:43:20 – Grand union Canal</span></strong></li> 224</ul> 225<p>I have always been relatively active, but never took running too seriously when I was younger. In 2006 I did my first event, which was a half marathon, on my birthday. Why…? Just because – no particular reason other than I thought it was a good challenge. Did I train… NO</p> 226<p>My next event was in 2007 where I thought I would try and better my time, which I did by 10 minutes. Did I train…? Not really, I’m just stubborn.</p> 227<p>My next event was not until 2009, again a half marathon, but this time I was not fit. Not only had I not been running, but I had put on weight and not been training at all… A will to achieve can only get you so far, and I suffered in this event, and ended with shin splints as a reward.</p> 228<p>This was the start of my running, I decided I needed to put a bit of effort in and spent the next couple of years doing 10k and half marathons, and I was improving. I was quickly smashing PBs regularly. I then decided to try a marathon, and I decided this would be the London Marathon in 2011. Of course I did not get into the ballot, which left charity. Lots of good causes but I decided that I would pick a smaller charity for animals; <b><u>Save the Rhino</u></b>. Only problem is there was an option to wear their huge rhino costume, and if you know me, you know I can’t help but love a challenge, so you guessed it, my first marathon was in a rhino costume, I was “horny Paul”. I went off too fast and suffered, but hey, at least it was a PB. It did not take long to shave hours off my time… Literally!</p> 229<p>Shortly after this I was presented with an opportunity to pace a half marathon for Xempo. The rest is history. I found a love for pacing… I spent years massively chasing PBs and pushing myself to deliver time and time again, but I found that pacing was so much more rewarding… I now regularly pace marathons and half marathons around the world, usually 1:40 half and the sub 4 #funbus. I find helping people to achieve their goals so much more rewarding than pushing myself further.</p> 230<p>2013 something wonderful happened, I was blessed with my first child “Benjamin”, and in 2015 “Amelie” come along. Since then training was not the same, and I struggled to stay at my best.</p> 231<p>Now the children are starting to get a little older I will start venturing towards getting some speed back, but for now I have found the joy of helping others achieve PB’s far exceeds that of gaining my own. I am a pacer, that is what I do, and I hope to continue to help people hit their targets, and motivate those around me as I go.</p> 232<p>I badly sprained my ankle just after Amelie was born and could barely walk, I stayed positive and entered an Ironman for 2016… Why?? I thought I would cross train and like a challenge… I AM AN IRONMAN 👌👌👌</p> 233<div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing"><h3 class="sd-title">Share this you know you want to</h3><div class="sd-content"><ul><li class="share-twitter"><a href="https://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="https://pickupthepacepaul.com/about-me/" data-text="About" >Tweet</a></li><li class="share-facebook"><div class="fb-share-button" data-href="https://pickupthepacepaul.com/about-me/" data-layout="button_count"></div></li><li class="share-end"></li></ul></div></div></div><div class='sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded' id='like-post-wrapper-114792615-3-6aa132cdc162b' data-src='https://widgets.wp.com/likes/?ver=16.2-beta#blog_id=114792615&post_id=3&origin=pickupthepacepaul.com&obj_id=114792615-3-6aa132cdc162b' data-name='like-post-frame-114792615-3-6aa132cdc162b' data-title='Like or Reblog'><h3 class="sd-title">Like this:</h3><div class='likes-widget-placeholder post-likes-widget-placeholder' style='height: 55px;'><span class='button'><span>Like</span></span> <span class="loading"><svg class="jetpack-spinner" width="18" height="18" viewBox="0 0 100 100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false"><circle cx="50" cy="50" r="46" fill="none" stroke="#ddd" stroke-width="8"/><path d="M 50 4 A 46 46 0 0 1 96 50" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="8" stroke-linecap="round"><animateTransform attributeName="transform" type="rotate" dur="1.4s" from="0 50 50" to="360 50 50" repeatCount="indef
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