
Those Strava Year in Sport summaries may only have just faded into the background but the Christmas and New Year lull is over and the pavements are ripe for pounding.
The pandemic-induced running boom has, by now, created an army of plodders verging on veterans a couple of years after lacing up for the first time and taking those tentative first steps out of the door, looking ahead to another year of chasing PBs in 2023.