TEAM Bath chairman Dave Coales completed his 24th marathon in New York on Sunday and admitted afterwards that he got his tactics all wrong.
Even though Coales is one of the most experienced marathon men in the west country the event is so unforgiving that even the slightest miscalculation can prove to be very costly.
“I had a tough time on Sunday,” said Coales. “I ran 2hrs 52mins and I made a big mistake, what you might say was a school boy error, of starting off at the same pace as I did in London on a tougher course and having missed a fair bit of training through injury.”