So, yes, I finished The time I got sucked massively - I was hoping for between 4 and 4.5 hours, but I found it much, much tougher than my practice runs, even though I was running between 18 and 23 miles on those, so it should have been relatively okay.
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I think part of it was because I've always run on my own and there's one hell of a difference between that and spending 4 hours 53 minutes running in the cold with rain and hail for a good while, dodging people from all angles and listening to almost non-stop cheering, shouting, screaming, music and other distractions mentally tiring.
The London marathon is well known for having
all manner of people running. I passed a couple of people dressed as Spiderman, Batman,
a Womble,
Del and Rodney in a cardboard
Reliant Regal, a fireman in full uniform including and oxygen cylinder, a frog, an egg, someone using crutches,
the Maasi team and
Buster Martin. Oh! The highlight was someone holding up a sign saying "[runner's name]: ceiling cat is watching you run". Awesome.
At the moment my legs ache and I'm walking like an old man. But that doesn't matter too much as I've done something that
, just over 4 months ago, I hadn't even considered doing.
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