I have sent off my entry form for the FLM and I'm sitting in my office thinking what have I done!?!
Don't get me wrong, I want to do it, but at the same time I'm thinking what a complete idiot I must be, wanting to run around London when there's a PERFECTLY GOOD PUBLIC TRANSPORT SYSTEM (?)
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And probably the fastest too: it takes me an hour-and-ten to run from White City where I work, home to Camberwell. It takes an hour-and-a-half by tube & bus.
Good luck with your entry, Jon.
(see, I can be nice)
T&TM: The tube system in saff is quite good, especially my trusty Northern Line! (When they can be arsed to work and not arguing about wanting £90,000 per annum!!!)
I'm is Sarf-east London, in the transport black hole that is Camberwll. No Tube here for me - boooo!
Still, there's some okay running to be had round these here parts, so mustn't really grumble...
Otherwise I'm better known in the London Marathon Forum for the site below - I try to use a similar tone for writing about getting into the marathon as I when writing about the tube. Acutally they are similar in their own way - confusing, difficult to get on top of and slightly Victorian ;-)
My Guide to entering the London Marathon.
None of us will get into London anyway, whats the alternative forum plan??
BK.. ideas please
those who don't, come and spectate!
We rejects shall be elsewhere
RW, how about organising the alternative??
And c'mon Benz - come along and join the fun regardless. The atmosphere is out of this world even just spectating (which can be pretty demanding itself !)
At least I can get buglered at home
My signoff should have read:
My Guide to entering the London Marathon.
oh and I'm forgeting this is Engerlund .. land of funny drinking hours .. ie .. not enough ...
You never know, I might get in this time
So might we all
Or the forumites could think about joining me, and hubby, and brother, in Berlin next September! We've already booked our hotel.
I think the next issue of Marathon News (when we find out if we are in or not) gives some details.
BK - can't handle the Dark Side - way too confusing ! Glad to see the Monkey got his head back again though !
Come on cougie, try the dark side..
From memory it was set up by someone who couldn't get in to London last year or the year before and its just continued. Its limited to 150 or so because thats how many people the hotel holds.
Daisy - when I ran last year, my wife came out to support me. She was around the 13 mile mark, where the route goes to the Isle of Dogs on one side of the road, and away from the Isle on the other side, so it's quite useful for seeing people on the way out and the way back (about the 18 mile mark). She found a pub just by where she was, and it was a proper "East End" pub with proper locals (are you local???), and was quite happy there. Then she crossed the road to see me coming back (before I collapsed).
And she'll be doing the same thing again next year, since I'm being foolish enough to run again and have a Gold Bond place...