Adrian impressed me with his intelligence and original approach to coaching and running. He was easy-going and practical, and ably rallied us men of a certain age for the Southern Vets' Cross-Country Championships in Oxford, providing interesting company during the lift-share there and back. Adrian was clearly a man of great career distinction, but wore that success lightly. He was no mean runner either. The Winchester-Geissen run was an extraordinary endeavour and one that I enjoyably followed online. While out for a bike ride one evening in September 2019, I came across Adrian being attended at the roadside by paramedics and, I presume, family or friends shortly after he had been taken by a seizure from the unsuspected brain tumour. I informed the chairman of our athletics club (WADAC) and emailed him in hospital and he cheerfully replied that he staying to undergo tests. Only near Christmas that year, at the WADAC party, did I learn from him the grim diagnosis, and yet he displayed remarkable equanimity and carried on enjoying the event quite naturally as, I'm sure, he did to the best of his ability thereafter. My heartfelt sympathy to his family and close friends. Adrian is missed and I will run in his honour.