{"id":6424,"date":"2013-11-12T15:09:24","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T14:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/?p=6424"},"modified":"2013-11-12T15:10:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T14:10:58","slug":"modest-bridgestone-account-manager-completes-new-york-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/index.php\/modest-bridgestone-account-manager-completes-new-york-marathon\/6424","title":{"rendered":"Modest Bridgestone Account Manager completes New York Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Dickson, Key Account Manager with Bridgestone Ireland, successfully completed the New York Marathon recently in the extremely impressive time of 4 hours and 43 minutes!\u00a0 Writing about his experience in his excellent blog &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 <!--more-->http:\/\/www.action.org.uk\/blog\/2013\/09\/23\/nyc_marathon_action_training_blog\u00a0 Peter modestly asks if this was a \u2018Success or Failure?\u2019!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/index.php\/modest-bridgestone-account-manager-completes-new-york-marathon\/6424\/pdickson-crosses-nym-line-20132\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6425\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6425 alignright\" alt=\"PDickson-crosses-NYM-line-20132\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PDickson-crosses-NYM-line-20132.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PDickson-crosses-NYM-line-20132.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PDickson-crosses-NYM-line-20132-198x300.png 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This was Peter\u2019s second New York Marathon and he ran for Action Medical Research for Children.\u00a0 On Sunday 3rd November, he joined 45,000 other runners pounding the streets of the Big Apple!<\/p>\n<p>Peter\u2019s blog charts the highs and lows of the day \u2013 the latter included getting less sleep than he would have liked, the taxi driver getting lost, the three and a half hour wait once he got through security until the start of the race, the first few miles weaving in and out of slower runners, the dips in energy at various stages, the lonely parts of the race where no spectators are allowed, other runners passing him at miles 22,23 and 24 and his inability at one point to get to a drinks station.<\/p>\n<p>The highs were the encouragement of spectators in Queens and Manhattan, reading messages of encouragement on his mobile phone while he ran, completing the race, getting his medal and his photo \u2013 and, oh yes, the fact that he bettered his previous time in 2009!\u00a0 No mean achievement!<\/p>\n<p>Peter\u2019s \u2018failure\u2019 in his own mind was that he set himself a target of 4 hours 30 minutes.\u00a0 So he terms the race both a success and a failure for him personally.\u00a0 But, as Action Medical Research comment at the end of his blog, \u201cMost definitely success, Peter!\u00a0 Fantastic achievement and all the Team at Action is very proud and grateful.\u201d\u00a0 His colleagues at Bridgestone, where he has worked for 18 years, are equally proud and impressed by his achievement.\u00a0 To date Peter has raised stg. \u00a3700 with monies still coming in!<\/p>\n<p>Peter originally applied for the marathon in 2010. \u201cI got in through a lottery system which had up to 120,000 applicants, so I was very lucky this year,\u201d he says.\u00a0 The week before he jetted out to New York he had a very dry birthday celebration \u2013 something that has no doubt been rectified since the Marathon!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6426\" alt=\"PDickson-with-NY-medal-20132\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PDickson-with-NY-medal-20132.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PDickson-with-NY-medal-20132.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tyretrade.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PDickson-with-NY-medal-20132-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Dickson, Key Account Manager with Bridgestone Ireland, successfully completed the New York Marathon recently in the extremely impressive time of 4 hours and 43 minutes!\u00a0 Writing about his experience in his excellent blog &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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