Kevin Seaward: An ordinary man doing extraordinary things

“I consider myself to be like any other club runner in terms of enjoying the challenges – just like their sub-three or sub-four challenge,” explains Kevin Seaward who runs in his second Olympic marathon this weekend.

Kevin Seaward made his Olympics debut in the 2016 Rio Games. He finished 64th in 2:20:06. Picture:  Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

There are days when Kevin Seaward scrolls through social media and he is struck, albeit fleetingly, by envy.

In rare moments of respite from his job as the assistant principal of a school with 2,500 pupils in Leicester, the 35-year-old from Belfast opens Instagram and sees picture after picture of friends and rivals at training camps in Flagstaff, Font Romeu, or St Moritz.