Greenwich to Westminster.
26.2 miles across London, April 2027, to buy kids their first passports. This page is the fundraiser, the training log, and a love letter to travel — all in one.
until race weekend, 24–25 April 2027
The fundraise
Ten first passports. That’s the goal.
- Greenwichstart line
- Cutty Sark25%
- Tower Bridge50%
- Canary Wharf75%
- Westminstergoal!
0 of 10 passports funded so far. Every $179 pays for one — the book, the fee, and the photo.
Currently boarding at Greenwich. Help me reach Westminster.
Donations go straight to Tucks Travels through Enthuse, the London Marathon’s official fundraising platform, and cover 100% of a young person’s passport application. I update this tracker by hand, so the freshest total is always on the donation page.
The charity
Tucks Travels: more passports, more first trips
Tucks Travels is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission that fits on a luggage tag: increase passport ownership in the US, and send students abroad for the first time. Founded by Tucker Piner, it works with partner schools to find young people who don’t have a passport and want one.
Only 43% of Americans hold an active passport, and just one in ten has been to two or more countries. The blocker is rarely curiosity — it’s $179 in book, fee, and photo, plus an application process nobody helps you through. Tucks Travels removes both: they walk families through the paperwork and cover 100% of the cost.
Then comes the good part. Once the passport arrives, they work with partner organizations to fund the first international trip — because a passport in a drawer changes nothing, and a first stamp changes the whole map. Stronger communities, and a little more equity in who gets to see the world.
More at tuckstravels.org, or read why I picked them.
The training
The state of the legs
Miles per week
From my Strava, 19 August 2026. This is the base phase: short runs on top of HIIT and lifting. The projected 4:21 comes from a Riegel extrapolation of July’s 5K — it will be wrong, and December me will fix it.
The line to race day
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Now — autumn 2026
Base miles
Easy runs, run clubs, and a dog named Tucker who remains skeptical of the whole project.
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December 2026
Structured training begins
A real plan, real long runs, and weekly write-ups in the training log — including the weeks that go badly.
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February – March 2027
Peak weeks
The 18-milers-in-the-dark part. Send snacks and encouragement.
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Early April 2027
Taper
Two weeks of resting, carb-loading, and refreshing the weather forecast for London.
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24–25 April 2027
Race weekend
London’s first two-day marathon — around 100,000 runners, the biggest ever staged. One of them will be me.
Wish you were here
A note from Ryan and me
Travel is the thing Ryan and I protect on the calendar before anything else. Between us we’ve stood in 14 countries, and the count matters less than what the counting did to us. Every trip made the world feel bigger and our problems feel smaller, usually in the same afternoon.
The best parts were never the landmarks. They were night trains, wrong turns, menus we couldn’t read, and the repeated discovery that people everywhere are mostly trying to do the same handful of things we are. It’s the cheapest education either of us has ever had, and none of it happens without a small blue booklet.
That’s what this run is really about: handing someone else their first stamp. If you’ve ever watched a kid walk out of an airport into a country that’s new to them — or been that kid — you know exactly what your donation buys.
— Jason & Ryan (and Tucker, who is not coming on the plane)