A first marathon attempt at 58 years old wasn't enough. He had to run the entire distance wearing a cape. Then again, Michael Cox has never done things by halves"DO YOU WANT TO WATCH ME RUN AROUND THE FIELD?" said my dad (who is in the top 10 loudest men in the East Midlands). It was a curious question to be asked by a man in late middle-age, clad in slippers and baggy cords stained with brinjal pickle, and I wasn't quite sure how to answer it.Earlier that day, in his north Nottinghamshire kitchen, as 1960s Nigerian pop blasted from his stereo, he'd made a surprise announcement: the following spring, almost two decades after last doing anything vaguely athletic, he ...