Spartathlon: Why We Run

David Sexton

Robin Harvie, who has written a book on the art of running, is so obsessed that he will be completing the London Marathon on Sunday not once but twice. David Sexton meets a man on a mission LONDON MARATHON THE RUNNER

ROBIN Harvie is a man obsessed. I know this before we meet, because I've read his book, Why We Run, an honest confession of monomania, frankly subtitled A Story of Obsession.