‘Horrendous blisters’: Retired UK banker, 65, attempts to run 200 marathons in 200 days

Steve James says the challenge is to do, on average, a marathon every day. Photograph: Steve James

The first fortnight was tough – terrible blisters, a flare of gout that needed a visit to A&E and the rapid realisation that running 200 marathons in 200 days around the coast of Great Britain would not be a walk in the park.

But Steve James, a 65-year-old retired banker from Devon, has found his feet, and on Thursday reached the halfway mark – an average of 100 marathons in 100 days.