I was truly shocked to hear this.
I remember only a few years ago, at one of our annual Chemistry Department dinners, I was sitting next to Chris, and given I had just taken up running relatively shortly beforehand we ended up talking about the topic the whole evening: About marathons (he had done many back then already, I was just training for my first one, so was very happy to listen); about losing weight (but not being able to really lose weight due to official and College dinners, Chris apparently lost quite some weight in the years before I got to know him); and about strategies for long distance runs (among other topics).
Then, and when our paths crossed a few times afterwards in the Department, he reminded me to join him and his running group during one of the weekends. One of his mates – I don’t remember his name – apparently didn’t have proper running shoes so he always ran in his wellies, until Chris and his friends put some money together and bought him shoes as a present at some stage. Given Chris had been running for years (he told me their pace) I always had in my mind to join them for their runs, once I would only be sufficiently fast myself.
Quite obviously this will never happen now.
RIP Chris, and I wish your family all the best.
I was truly shocked to hear this.
I remember only a few years ago, at one of our annual Chemistry Department dinners, I was sitting next to Chris, and given I had just taken up running relatively shortly beforehand we ended up talking about the topic the whole evening: About marathons (he had done many back then already, I was just training for my first one, so was very happy to listen); about losing weight (but not being able to really lose weight due to official and College dinners, Chris apparently lost quite some weight in the years before I got to know him); and about strategies for long distance runs (among other topics).
Then, and when our paths crossed a few times afterwards in the Department, he reminded me to join him and his running group during one of the weekends. One of his mates – I don’t remember his name – apparently didn’t have proper running shoes so he always ran in his wellies, until Chris and his friends put some money together and bought him shoes as a present at some stage. Given Chris had been running for years (he told me their pace) I always had in my mind to join them for their runs, once I would only be sufficiently fast myself.
Quite obviously this will never happen now.
RIP Chris, and I wish your family all the best.
