Grange Farm and Dunmow Runners’ Dan Reynolds set a personal best in the Greater Manchester Marathon on Sunday.
Reaching the half-way stage in 1 hour 31 minutes 15 seconds, Reynolds was faster over the second half to finish in 3hrs 1min 43secs.
This knocked more than 48 minutes of his previous fastest time set at Mablethorpe in 2013.
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