‘A different kind of pain’: Alex Yee prepares for London Marathon debut

Olympic champion on suffering, seeking personal and physical growth in Sunday’s race and his 93-year-old grandad who still does ParkrunThere is a beautiful book about suffering on Alex Yee’s coffee table in his front room on the outskirts of Loughborough. It’s a massive book about cycling and riding up imposing mountains that look gorgeous in black-and-white photographs even as they bring down almost unbearable pain on those cyclists brave and crazy enough to confront them. Yee