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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

London Marathon 2008

Having had a pretty shabby week, coming down with another nasty lergy, I spent until Saturday morning thinking 'shall I? shan't I?' Saturday was the last chance for me to head to London and collect my number, so I did, giving me another 24 hours to decide whether to run or not. 5am Sunday morning saw me up and out, heading for the Deal Tri coach, cursing that I was about to run another marathon feeling like pants, an exact repeat of two years ago.

The weather for the race really was four seasons in one day, warm sunshine, torrential rain, cold wind.......got absolutely soaked at the 11 mile point and my kit never really dried out, running in wet trainers I am sure made my feet even worse (currently 3 big bloody blisters and 4 dead and decaying toenails). Anyway, to cut a long story short, I found the marathon OK! It was hard work but I just stuck to a really consistent pace, making sure I never really got out of breath (which would start me coughing) and if I am totally honest it was probably the 'easiest' I have found running a marathon (it's my 5th) and did my second fastest marathon time and knocked 11 minutes off my PB for the London course..............WEIRD!!!!

The crowds were great and saw the masai warriors, the woman on stilts, the womble, Borat in a mankini, another man running in just a thong....great atmostphere. It poured again for the last couple of miles so I finished in the rain - 4 hours 13 minutes - a very relieved and happy bunny. Chris sounded pleasantly surprised when I rang him! Met up with Sasha and fellow Dealies before heading back to Kent.

1 comment:

Simon said...

All I can say is you're hard as nails and well done.