Jason Beeton

Running has always been in the family with my dad and uncle running for Newmarket for years. It was inevitable that I would start doing it myself as soon as i was old enough. I was a promising junior. Probably my one of my proudest running moments to date occured when I was 14, finishing 14th in the Newmarket heath run just one place behind my dad. Later that year I ran a couple of 10k's the fastest of which was Cambridge in 40.19 which wasnt bad considering I was 15 at the time. However in the following years I grew apart from running, besides a few races in 2008 I barely ran at all for 8 years! Untill I approached my 25th birthday when me and dad decided to run the 2010 Edinburgh half-marathon together to mark our 25th and 50th birthdays. Since then I have rediscovered running and slowly began to regain some form. After a dissapointing 2012 I set myself the target of returning to Edinburgh in 2013 for my Marathon debut.