{"id":23342,"date":"2017-04-30T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/?p=23342"},"modified":"2026-03-13T06:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:27:22","slug":"running-scared-a-marathon-in-afghanistan-by-keith-macintosh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/running-scared-a-marathon-in-afghanistan-by-keith-macintosh.html","title":{"rendered":"Running Scared? A marathon in Afghanistan By Keith MacIntosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23343\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-23343\" src=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/Running-Scared-A-marathon-in-Afghanistan-By-Keith-MacIntosh-1024x566.jpg\" alt=\"Running Scared? 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A marathon in Afghanistan By Keith MacIntosh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>It\u2019s early morning to the west of Bamiyan in the highlands of central Afghanistan. There is fresh snow on the mountains, and a crowd is huddled together in the cold air. A couple of pickups are mounted with heavy machine guns, and uniformed men hover, clutching their rifles. We are waiting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A whistle is blown, the pickups set off, and the crowd scatters. We all run.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometime around 2003, I received an invitation to visit Afghanistan \u2013 I\u2019m still not sure how it reached me, but supposedly it was from the Minister of Tourism. I didn\u2019t go, and over the subsequent years, I assumed it would never happen. Too far, too difficult, too dangerous. Always somewhere else to travel instead. But in late 2015, a few clicks on the internet led me to talk of a \u2018Marathon of Afghanistan\u2019 \u2013 the first ever attempt to stage such a thing in such a place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This story is featured in the <a href=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fglobetrotters.co.uk%2Fmembers%2Ffixme%2F\">Winter 2017 issue of Globe<\/a> (free to all members).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 13px!important;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong><a style=\"text-decoration: none!important; color: #07a0dd!important;\" href=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fglobetrotters.co.uk%2Fmembers%2F2017%2F02%2F12%2Fglobe-2017-winter%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">>> Continue reading in the Winter 2017 issue of Globe<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s early morning to the west of Bamiyan in the highlands of central Afghanistan. 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