Greenwich to Westminster.
In April 2027 I’m running the London Marathon for Tucks Travels, a charity that buys kids their first passports. Everything about the run lives on this page.
until race weekend, 24–25 April 2027
The fundraise
The goal is ten first passports
- 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
What Tucks Travels does
Tucks Travels is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by Tucker Piner. The mission is to get more Americans a passport, then send young people abroad for the first time. They work with partner schools to find students who don’t have one and want one.
Only 43% of Americans hold an active passport, and about one in ten has been to two or more countries. Usually the problem isn’t interest. It’s $179 of book, fee and photo, plus an application nobody helps you file. Tucks Travels walks families through the paperwork and covers the whole cost.
Once the passport arrives, they work with partner organizations to pay for the first trip too. A passport in a drawer doesn’t do much. A first trip does.
More at tuckstravels.org.
The training
The plan
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 is a Riegel extrapolation of July’s 5K, so treat it as a rough guess until real training starts in December.
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 the weeks that go badly.
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February – March 2027
Peak weeks
The long ones: 16 to 20 miles, mostly before sunrise.
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Early April 2027
Taper
Two weeks of rest, carbs, and checking the London forecast.
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24–25 April 2027
Race weekend
London’s first two-day marathon: around 100,000 runners across the weekend, the biggest ever staged.
Wish you were here
A note from Jason and me
Jason and I plan our years around travel. So far it’s taken us to 25 countries, and some of the best days of our lives happened in them.
The parts we remember aren’t the landmarks. They’re the night trains, the wrong turns, the menus we couldn’t read. Travel has taught us more than anything else we’ve spent money on, and none of it happens without a passport.
We want other people to have that, starting with kids whose families can’t spare the application fee. That’s what this run is for. If you can, help us hand someone their first stamp.
— Ryan & Jason (and Tucker, who is not coming on the plane)