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Just a quick message to you both to say thank you for the bands.
Ruth, I hope you meet your expectations on the day and have a good one.
El C, sorry to hear your bad news and I hope 2007 is a better year for you.
Thanks Again
Bojangles.
Well after not sleeping to well this week,tiedness has final got the better of me, i could bite a nail in half at the moment,so its a early night for me.
All i have to say now is,i hope i get the chance to meet you all this weekend,but if i don't, i wish everyone the very best of luck for sunday,and i hope we all can finish what we started!!!
FLM bring it on!!!if we not ready now we never will be.
Also a big thankyou for all the support,you have given ,if you all weren't here my marathon training would have been a lonely one
Take care
Diane
I am signing off now as travelling to london village in the morning and hope to be at excel around lunchtime.
Good luck to all fellow PHAB runners and may the wind always be behind us!
Feel motivated after getting to work today to find my office decorated in good luck messages and banners together with a good luck card signed by what seemed like a thousand people!
Hope to see you all sometime over the weekend if only for a celebration drink after it is all over!
don't 4get to stick to ur race plan, make sure u have one!!!
safe journey to those of you travelling to london!!
See you all at the finish in the Phab re-pat area!
Traveling to London this afternoon so this is my last pre race post.Best of luck and thank you all for advice and encouragement along the way.
See you on the common.
Rich
Thanks for all your help and support over the last few months. This forum has really helped me through those negative times.
Lesley K 'the fairy' - hope to see you at the start with the pacers!
Let's enjoy it!!
went to the Excel yesterday - did'nt see any of you there, which was a shame, but know we'll see other PHAB people tomorrow and i'll give you all a smile and wave... i'm in pen 9... if anyone else is? although have heard people move about in the pens, so if one of your friends is an 8, you can still stand together.
I'm not sure how i feel today. thurs was my last day at work and i was a wreak.. today is weird.. the Excel brings it home - your right there Dean! i welled up when they gave me my number!
Bugbabe, i've said exactly the same thing to a mate who we said we will run together, she's running for Barnardo's, but we'll run together and i'm terrified i'll hold her up - i've told her to just go if i'm too slow! don't worry, you will not be on your own..theres gonna be thousands of others at your pace and with adrenaline, we'll sail round... can someone fix the weather so - just so it dont rain!!
This will be my last post, as got to watch the boyfriend play rugby in his cup final match today - just to say thanks for him standing out in the cold watching me race for the last 4 months, then heading down to London early evening, get some food and an early night... for all the good that will do... have not slept well since weds!!
however... that said BRING IT ON!!! Diane, Toks, Bugbabe, Both Lesleys Ruth... can't wait to meet you all and everyone else.. GOOD LUCK and REMEMBER... WE ARE CHAMPIONS!!! Whatever time we do.. however much it hurts (cos that will go away) we are stars adn are doing something amazing!!
love to you all... Becki xxx
Her's hoping for sub 6!
just stick to ur pace!!!
saw many of you running you all looked good
Luc69
Bugbabe and Diane, how was the rest of ur race???
it was lovely meeting both of u!!!
finished just under 7 hrs with a lovely woman called Amber running for Stroke, we both had pain on the back of our thighs!!!
we walked most of way from the half way mark, but so elated that we gave each other support till the end, i guess that is what the london marathon is all about team work!!!
chat later!!
Finished in less than 6 hours 30. If you listened to the talk for slow runners at Excel that was 6 hours 30 mins. Less 4 toilet stops of at least 20 mins each (runners tummy!) Countless stops with the bands to dance with the organisers and I managed a Salsa with a hunky Policeman called Bob, I do like a uniform. Now there was the high 5's, low 5's kisses etc etc. So hey its got to be a 5 hour marathon, surely? But what a day!!
I finished in 3.46 (my first marathon), and have to say that I am very sore this morning. But it was a fantastic day, and being able to have a warm shower (runners nipples were dreadful though!) was fantastic!
Have to say I have really enjoyed being involved with Phab this year, and all the help and advice from Madeleine and her team, and the use of the store yard yesterday just made my day perfect. If I get in next year I will run for Phab again.
Well done everyone!
Well done everyone and good luck trying to walk!!
Really pleased for everyone and their success!!
Well done.
Had a terrible race as didnt eat much the day before or breakfast. Stomach cramps from 7-16 then i had to eat everything people were handing out as was on the verge of an Andrew Castle type collapse. Trouble was from 17-22 miles i was being sick so had to walk. Started running at 22 again and finished in 5.12
Thanks for everyones support especially those Phab that tapped me on the back and spoke as they went past.
Well done again to you all, See you all next year??????????????
Havent checked but if ok will send you a copy, its a DVD Ram disk, is that ok. Its got doctor Who on as well!
A little tired and sore, but what a day!! what an awesome experience... got round in 4:58 so really pleased!
Well done everyone, you are all fantastic!
x
Well done to everyone!
Diane thank you so much for your support have just checked out your time I was 5 minutes behind you and am gutted I didn't catch you up! Have had to go to the hospital this morning as I have strained the ligaments in my right leg and foot. Have a leg the perculiar colour purple! I did it in 5.49.
Toks lovely to have met you glad you had a good run and really pleased you managed to have someone with you to finish.
i did it in 6.54 so really chuffed to finish it!!
we r all winners!!
Tok it was lovely to meet you ,and so glad you had someone to run with .
Fiona, well done i know you were suffering,i'm so glad you finished:) i have been thinking about you ,and hoped you were ok.
My time was 5hrs 43mins, so glad i finish,and the last 100 meters i ran as fast as i could up the mall,with tears rolling down my face, what a fantastic day!!
Well done everyone we all should be very proud!
Ruth
Thank you all so very much for your support.
YOUR ALL HERO'S, THANKS
Lesley K you should be ashamed of yourself dancing with policeman while your husband was waiting for you at the finsih had a good chat to him in the courtyard. Was good to meet other Phab runners out on the course. Top day really enjoyed.
Now do I want to do it again next year?