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The 26th London marathon takes place this Sunday, 23 April. Met Office forecasters are predicting generally good conditions for the start of the race; however, the weather is likely to change during the day with rain later.
The elite runners are likely to miss the heaviest rain, but it will feel quite warm and humid, particularly in any bright spells. Thickening cloud is forecast to bring an increasing chance of rain through the day, some of which could be heavy.
Good luck every one!!!!!!!
See you at the start, on the way round or at the finish at the party!!
YOU CAN DO IT YOU KNOW YOU CAN!!!
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!!
See you at the end!!!!
I shall be enviously spectating.
(I'll be back next year!)
Im staying at the Jury's Kensington.
Hope to see some of you.
Best wishes to all, have a great day and enjoy it.
morning to everyone and CONGRATULATIONS!!!- what an amazing day-wow-I loved it!! The atmosphere was fantastic, and the crowds were brilliant- I never want to eat another jelly baby/chewitt again!!!
Haven't slept a wink-as my legs are cripplingly painful and feet are falling apart with blisters and lifting toenails-but I want to do it again!
Sorry not to have met anyone at banqutting house after- had to get home to my baby-, but I went up to every CWL runner i met and said 'Hi!'- so if I accosted you-apologies!
My official time was 4.05.57 so thrilled!!
cANT WAIT TO HEAR HOW YOU ALL GOT ON!! WELL DONE TO EVERYONE!
Was an amazing day, weather absolutly perfect, and I will be steering clear of lucozade, jelly babys, fruit pastilles etc. Still got a nasty taste in my mouth.
Anyhow feel fine this morning, off to work soon.
Skip there's always next year for a GFA place.You get days like that, that's what makes the marathon unique.
I have to admit that i was getting certain pangs of regret while spectating, i'm sure if i'd ran though that i would have caused no end of further damage.C'est la vie!!!
It's all out for a sub 2:55 next year.My only consolation is the fact that i am already in.
Hi Rick- yes-first time, I only started running a year ago as a boozy bet on New Years eve, iand now I'm hooked!!- Really suffering with my legs today- walking like my granny, but definitely want to do it next year so see you there.. may even try for a sub 4(perhaps happy feeling is getting the better of me!)
Ps-whats a GFA place?
My age group is sub 3:00 (last year i did 2:59:32), it should not be confused with the championship entry. Yoy have to be able to go sub 2:45 to qualify for that one.They are the people who line up behind the elite athletes at the start.
Well done on your time for your first marathon, you should be faster if you do it again next year.
I managed 4:56:34 which was a bit slower than I would have liked. Was on target for 4:40 til mile 19 then it sort of went a bit wrong!
But still a new pb by 29 minutes so cant complain too much and felt very good until mile 19. More to come on another day I reckon!
Tell me about 19 miles, that's when my wheels fell off last year. I went from 6:30's to 9:30's in one fell swoop.
I must have been near you at some point Rio, as I finished in 4:55:18. I also was on track to do 4:40 but found it tough from about 18 onwards - in fact, I found the whole thing harder than most of my traning runs - what's that about then? Anyhoo it was 80 mins off my previous attempt so gotta be happy with that! I reckon we all raised a massive amount for a brilliant cause - very, very well done to us!!
Congratulations to you all, hello to my friends from FLM05, and...I hope to return...!
Alex x
Just popped on to let you all know my time.
For 26.2 mile I did 4:15:44 on my Garmin 305.
The FLM which I measured @ 26.7 mile was 4:21:41.
That means I beat my PB by 1hr 12min 53sec.
Last year I did 5:34:34.
I have two blisters which take up half of each foot.
My ITB pulled really tight at 16 mile so had to stop every 2 mile to stretch it out. Had to walk the last 800m due to the ITB being to painfull.
Apart from that I was pleased with the Time. I was on for a sub 4hr until 16mile. Not bad for the training I had not done.
Well done to you all some great times.
Alex - Well done with your run and lets hope you can be there next year.
Well done to all of you who have posted their times - excellent effort!
I beat my PB by around 5 mins, coming in at 4:53:40, so I was pleased, especially after an awful middle section of the race when I thought I was on for a 5 hour 40 time!
Well done again, everyone.
I feel a bit drained now, can't eat enough and I too am nursing big blisters on my feet at the base of my big toe. Collecting the blister plasters came in handy!!!!
Got to get myself fit to race on Sunday, just a 10k.
definitely see you all next year and alex too!
How did Jill do?
Anyone got a copy of race on dvd I could have a copy of please? bl**dy technology never works when you want it to!
I am happy to pay costs or make a donation to charity!
Off for a nice little run/walk now