London Marathon Ever Presents

Ever Presents
Formation	c. April 20, 1996 (1996-04-20)
Membership	Open to runners of all 34 London Marathons since 1981
Affiliations	London Marathon
Website	www.everpresent.org.uk

The "Ever Presents" is a group of people to have run the London Marathon at each event since the first event in 1981.^[1]^[2]^[3] As of the 2014 race, there are 14 members of the group.

History

The group was first acknowledged in 1995 after the 15th marathon. At that point, the number of members was 42.^[4] By 2014 the number of members had reduced to 15. Jeffrey Gordon did not start the 2014 race. Fourteen members finished in 2014.

Members

Original members

At the time of the group's acknowledgement by the London Marathon in 1995, the following 42 people had run each event.^[5]

Number	Name	Club	Age in 1981	Time in 1981	Final race^{[nb 1]}
1	Christopher Adams	Orion Harriers	38	02:49:37	2002
2	Alastair Aitken	Highgate Harriers	41	02:53:01	1999
3	Jeff Aston	Les Croupiers	33	02:49:53	Ever-present
4	Geoffrey Balfour	Huncote Harriers	31	02:45:00	2000
5	Reginald Brown	SLH	49	03:07:38	2000
6	Reginald Burbidge	Highgate Harriers	55	03:54:17	2007
7	Rainer Burchett	Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers	41	02:58:30	2011
8	Harold Chadwick	Bournemouth /TH&H	34	02:24:10	1996
9	David Clark	Newbury AC	45	02:53:55	2010
10	Charles Cousens	Vale of Aylesbury	38	02:58:13	Ever-present
11	Patrick Dobbs	Thurrock Harriers	42	02:41:37	Ever-present
12	Erik Falck-Therkelsen	Woking AC	40	02:59:59	2001
13	David Fereday	Barnet & District	42	03:13:55	Ever-present
14	Chris Finill	Harrow AC	22	02:32:55	Ever-present
15	Derek Fisher	Newport Harriers	45	02:56:22	2004
16	Jeffrey Gordon	Thames H&H	47	03:13:42	2013
17	Peter Greenwood	Canterbury Harriers AC	38	02:46:53	2002
18	John Hanscombe	Ranelagh Harriers	45	02:54:29	2008
19	Jan Hildreth	Thames H&H	48	03:25:37	2005
20	Raymond Johnson	Kimberley & Dist. Striders	48	03:11:00	2006
21	Kenneth Jones	Orion Harriers	47	03:18:37	Ever-present
22	Max Jones	Birchfield Harriers	53	03:51:52	2002
23	John Legge	Orion Harriers	50	03:02:35	2000
24	Roger Low	Highgate Harriers	37	02:47:55	Ever-present
25	Dale Lyons	Massey Ferguson RC	44	03:10:03	Ever-present
26	Terence Macey	New Eltham Joggers	32	03:17:56	Ever-present
27	Lionel Mann	Belgrave Harriers	40	03:06:07	2002
28	Don Martin	Royal Parks Police	40	04:10:00	2005
29	Roger Mawer	Lowestoft	40	02:58:04	2009
30	Mick McGeoch	Les Croupiers	25	02:24:19	2002
31	William O’Connor	QPH	35	02:35:52	Ever-present
32	Michael Peace	Ranelagh Harriers	31	03:11:45	Ever-present
33	Mike Peel	Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC	39	02:40:30	2012
34	Derrick Pickering	East Hull Harriers	44	02:38:38	2010
35	Bryan Read	Orion Harriers	40	03:24:05	1998
36	Peter Shepheard	Blackheath Harriers	38	02:29:47	2005
37	Malcolm Speake	Biddleston Bounders	39	02:47:58	Ever-present
38	Michael Starr	St.Albans Striders	37	03:47:11	2002
39	Tony Tillbrooke	Victory AC	41	03:42:24	2012
40	David Walker	Chalfont & Chiltern	35	03:06:11	Ever-present
41	Steve Wehrle	Dulwich Runners AC	32	03:51:26	Ever-present
42	Michael Wilkinson	Duke Street Runners	42	02:52:51	2007

— no longer a member
— still a member

Current members

The following 14 people ran and completed the 2014 event. Chris Finill ran over 3 hours for the first time. He holds a Guinness World Record for the feat of running the first 33 editions of a major marathon in under 3 hours.^[6]

Number	Name	Club	Age	Category	Time	Place in category	Place overall
3	Jeff Aston	Les Croupiers	66	65–69	04:08:07	77	13,579
10	Charles Cousens	Vale of Aylesbury	71	70+	04:48:23	57	23,116
11	Patrick Dobbs	Thurrock Harriers	75	70+	04:47:19	54	22,866
13	David Fereday	Barnet & District	75	70+	05:41:38	97	31,584
14	Chris Finill	Harrow AC	55	55–59	03:10:14	36	2,320
21	Kenneth Jones	Orion Harriers	80	70+	06:06:28	112	33,531
24	Roger Low	Highgate Harriers	70	70+	04:18:29	24	16,079
25	Dale Lyons	n/a	77	70+	07:12:39	131	35,518
26	Terence Macey	n/a	65	65–69	04:55:20	141	24,672
31	William O'Connor	Queen's Park Harriers	68	65–69	05:33:13	194	30,644
32	Michael Peace	Ranelagh Harriers	64	60–64	03:53:28	122	9,873
37	Malcolm Speake	Biddleston Bounders AC	72	70+	04:54:40	67	24,508
40	David Walker	Chiltern Harriers	68	65–69	05:09:46	163	27,330
41	Stephen Wehrle	Dulwich Runners AC	65	65–69	05:25:25	183	29,692