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Welcome
to the background information to Dave Thom. The editor
Time-to-Run, Scotland. Scotland's
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Dave Thom was born and raised in Lanarkshire, in the years
that saw the decline and demise of the traditional heavy industries
of coal, steel and shipbuilding.
He left school and worked for a year with GKN Steelstock
before moving to University of Glasgow as an Electron Microscopy
technician, where he gained Chemistry qualifications. During
the 80's, as computers and networks started to infiltrate
University Departments there was a natural affinity, and by
default he became the Departments IT technician. Later he
moved to become Systems Manager for two other University Departments.
Dave, was introduced to Cross Country at school, where football
was the ubiquitous sport. After leaving school there was a
sporting lull, until he took up cycling in the early 80's.
This reintroduced him to running, as a way to keep fit during
the winter.
It quickly became apparent that he was never going to be
great at either, but he was better as a runner. He ran a few
half marathons and quickly went from 1:30 to 1:15, then in
the 90's to 70 mins with a best of 70:04, other PB's are 3,000m
8:54, 10k 31:35, 5k 14:58. He kas also run quite a few 3,000
s/c but never in much under 10 mins.
Dave prefers the roads to the country. The reason being his
long low stride, is not suited to the terrain and he finds
things very difficult. He even tried the London Marathon in
1997 where the aim was to get round, which he did in 2:38.
Marathons are not his first love!!
His attitude to running has become more serious with time
and when he became a veteran, everything was seen in a different
light. He won the veteran category in almost every race that
year, picking up many Scottish and British veteran championship
medals along the way.
Dave is married with two boys, with the youngest showing
that he may be a talented sportsman. His other interests are
Hillwalking, cycling (for leisure these days) and sadly computing.
His wife, Lesley, would also list his amazing ability to sit
and do nothing for hours at a time.
With great pleasure we welcome Dave to the pages of Time-to-Run
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