Jones back in the running with marathon heroes

STEVE JONES enjoys celebrity status now those days and he will be found among the sponsors, promoters and VIPs at all the major marathons.

However, on Monday morning, he will be back among his favourite people when he lines up for the adidas Dublin Marathon.

All of 18 years ago almost to the day the tough Welshman took the US marathon scene to a new dimension when he won the Chicago Marathon in 2:07:13 and that was just a second slower than the amazing world record which was set by the Olympic champion, Carlos Lopes, in Rotterdam exactly six months earlier.