Wales legend Aaron Ramsey pulled on his running shoes once again at the weekend – this time with a surprise appearance at the Stockholm marathon.<\/p>\n
The former Arsenal midfielder quietly turned up and took on the 26.2-mile challenge on Saturday by recording a superb sub-three-hour personal best time.<\/p>\n
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The 35-year-old completed the race in an impressive time of two hours 59 minutes and 20 seconds – below the gold standard three-hour mark for teh event.<\/p>\n
Ramsey, who retired from professional football earlier this year, took to social media after the race, posing with his medal after crossing the finishing line.<\/p>\n
He wrote on Instagram: \u201cPB 2:59:20 what a great event.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Thank you @stockholm_42195 and @adidasrunning for looking after me.”<\/p>\n
Fellow Welshman Gethin Jones, who recently completed a Couch to 5K as a guide runner<\/a>, was among those to show their appreciation.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n “Haha, he did it!” he wrote.<\/p>\n Former Wales rugby star Alex Cuthbert added: “Shift mate.”<\/p>\n Former Real Madrid star Keylor Navas, who briefly played with Ramsey at Mexican side Pumas UNAM, simply said: “woww top”.<\/p>\n Ramsey appears to have caught the bug for marathon running since choosing to hang up his boots.<\/p>\n Just days after calling time on his career, the former Euro 2016 hero ran alongside thousands of others in the London Marathon<\/a>, clocking up a time of 3:00:30.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Ramsey ran that race on behalf of It’s Never You, a charity founded by friends Ceri and Frances Menai-Davis, whose six-year-old son Hugh died from rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare cancer.<\/a><\/p>\n