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About Steve

Me and my shoes.

I have enjoyed running for many years, doing my first marathon in 1993 - the London Marathon. Since then I have completed appoximately 140 marathons, usually managing to squeeze in a long weekend in some great cities of the world - Paris, New York, Berlin, Seville, Madrid, Boston, Dublin and Budapest. I've also done the Tough Guy twice and the Great North Run 7 times.

Having heard about the legendary Marathon des Sables I entered the 1999 edition, became hooked on deserts and did it again in 2001, 2002 and 2005. I have since competed in many more desert events and in 2007 did my second Libyan Challenge and the Gobi March in China.

Planned events for 2009 are the Al Andalus Ultra Trail and the London Triathalon.

With the rest of my Sandblasters team we are raising £1,000,000 for our chosen charities Small Steps School for Parents and Signpost Young Carers. Here's our Justgiving site if you wish to help us along.

As part of my training and preparation for the first Marathon des Sables in 1999 I established a small, friendly training run with Anthony Taylor. I've organised it every year since and the Thames Meander is now the premier training run in Europe for the MdS. It is also one of the most popular double marathon ultra-events in the UK.

Anthony, incidentally, now organises the Ridgeway Challenge every August; 85 miles along a 5,000 year old trackway.

I'm happily married to Kathy and we live in Spitalfields. This is a wonderfully historic part of London, originally used by wealthy Romans as a burial ground; then it was Jack the Ripper's manor and today it's home to a thriving market and diverse artistic community.

I'm Managing Director of Litchfield Consultants which I founded in 1998. We're project managers specialising in designing and building data centres and dealer rooms and have worked with many of the major banks and financial institutions in the City of London.