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Keep checking train times. Will be so relieved to actually get to the start.
Rich, I dreamt I had a bad back,lost my shoes and then luckily I woke up before anything worse happened.
Just going to pack
And for good luck
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I bought some green hairspray today, so if you see a 6ft tall chick sporting a Macmillan vest, sunnies with orange lenses and bright green hair in bunches - give me a shout
Have a good one.
now I lay me down to sleep
i pray the Lord my health to keep
if i should panic before i wake
i pray the Lord my fear to take
God bless tweety (& mr, junior, mini, mum & dad tweety) flipper, darkie, rich21 (& his mum and missus), straycelt & his tart, tallbird and her green hair, lameduck, baz, debs, mandy, dawn, any other macmillan runner i've very stupidly missed, kirsty, nic and craigs w & f @ team macmillan, lyndsey & jeanette @ macmillan essex, slim at home magazine, romford recorder, herald and post, all of our sponsors and mainly all cancer patients, survivors and those who have been taken by this crappy disease.
this one's for you.
tweety - im not even slighty religious but the last line did make me cry remembering my dad. Brought it all into perspective
Just like to say a big thank you to everyone on this site, sure i wouldnt have made it to today without your support - see you at the end guys
PS - Looking up already england finally won a game of cricket!
R
Fortunately I managed to regain some sense in my legs at mile 22, actually ran the last mile and sprinted the finish to a chorus of Macmillan supporters.
I swore I would never do it again. I'm afraid I will hold to that unless they change it to January/ Feb and guarantee cooler weather!!
My hat off to you Stray celt, it is amazing anyone managed to run in a costume. I saw a wookie costume, heavily furred and was in huge admiration. Did not see you though and you beat me home!! How could I miss that?? I finished in around 5.55 (target was pre 6 hours in the end)
Hope everyone else got round safely. Nice to have met you, Becky, at the start.
Off to bed now for a long sleep......
Found it v. tough - never really got into my stride, was expecting (hoping) the first half at least would feel easy given I was running at a fairly conservative pace - but it didn't - and that didn't do my morale much good.
Went through half way in 1:44 - and just got slower from there.
Did a fair bit of walking from 20 miles onwards - at every water stop and then a bit extra - I did manage to run reasonably quickly once I got going again, but it wasn't ideal, and I was quite disappointed in myself, even though there were LOTS of people walking by that stage.
I don't think tapering suits me, or the heat, and I am pretty sure that on a different day I could have cracked 3:30. Will I go back and try again next year? my immediate reaction is 'no' but now I have a GFA time, I might find it difficult to resist!
Thought the massage in the Mac recovery centre was fab - and the cup of tea and proper toilets - the supporters were amazing all the way round, have never had my name on my shirt before, and it was incredible.
I didn't notice any of the sights of London!
Did I enjoy it? To be honest - no - it was too far, and too hot and too hard, but it was definately an experience and I'm glad I did it.
I did meet Lame Duck (kind of) on the start line, which was nice, and another Mac runner recognised me from doing the Fleet half the other month (he was calmly overtaking me at the time).
Whatever happened though - we are all heros!!
Well done us
Well I'm sporting the most ridiculous tan lines ever this morning (looks like I'm wearing a white vest). HUGE congratulations to everyone for finishing - that was easily the hardest race I've ever done. If all runs were like that I'd have given up years ago.
I got round in 3:56. Before the race I would have been disappointed with that, but now I'm absolutely chuffed just to have finished! A 1:42 first half followed by a 2:14 second half tells it's own story!
Got to meet Tweety, Tallbird, Baz & Debs which was great. Thanks so much to you and everyone else for the support on here, it's been great. Finally, massive thanks to any supporters who might be reading this - you were amazing.
Right, back to bed for me. Hope everyone's OK
Struggling to walk this morning, a couple of dodgy toe nails but apart from that on cloud nine!
So nice to see Straycelt on the highlights last night - well done you. (I did see your mate at the start - waving furiously at him thinking it was you, not realising there were two tarts on the course!)
CONGRATULATIONS TO RUNNERS AND SUPPORTERS BOTH!
It was very hot, very hard and in places absolutely horrible, but what an amazing experience!
It was lovely to meet and chat to quite a few Macmillan runner and I think we definitely had the most fantastic supporters - they made such a difference to me.
I was hoping for 4.15-4.30 and so was delighted wtih 4.19 on such a day. Plus my son tells me I beat Matt Dawson and Gordon Ramsay!
Rest well now everybody.
Can't believe people thought you were a pizza - you were clearly a bakewell tart!
Well done everyone else as well - I saw lots of Macmillan runners, there seemed to be a few where I was running - and we seemed to overtake and then be overtaken most of the way round.
How did your leg hold up Lame Duck?
my quads are giving me stick this morning, as I suspected they would - but my poor old feet are the worst casualties - thank goodness for sandals is all I can say (although not in public - nobody should have to suffer the sight of my toes at the moment!).
Still wearing my medal
nice to meet a few of you yesterday - my mum & dad saw you and your tart straycelt!
i really suffered in the heat as a slower runner and they had run out of water at several stations. thanks to the london fire brigade for their hoses (!) i managed to brave a cold bath when i got home.
about 6.21 something for me. i realised at about mile 10 - 12 that the heat was too much and when i saw so many having to drop out, i had to think realistically. managed to spot everyone who had come to see me and recognised kirsty from macmillan (she spotted me as well!) at mile 25. got overtaken by a few mr men, rhinos, two trees and a couple of wombles.
lameduck - count me in for volunteering for next year, because i'm not doing this again!!!
p.s. still wearing my medal and finisher's tshirt at work today. the medal is staying on until someone takes it off me. i worked hard for it.
I drank like a fish all the way as the one thing I feared was dehyration and collapsing. I guess you can never tell how it is going to affect you.
Today feel more human after another bath, managed to get down the stairs. Seeing physio later for one last massage. Won't have the excuse to have one anymore!