Ready, set, go...

So as mentioned last night we went down to London today for the marathon. Our train in was delayed by 27 minutes due to over-running engineering works which was typical. Fancy scheduling engineering works on the weekend of such a big event anyway!

We got lucky in the end; Math1e met us at the Limehouse DLR station and led us to the apartment that we were spending the day at, and en route to it we had to cross a road that made part of the route, and got over it a mere 10 mins before the main bulk of the runners past.

It was a superb day and a fantastic atmosphere; lots of cheering strangers on and sharing food and drink.
We got to see Kas18 & Math1e's eldest 'N' as he run past; he looked very fresh and full of beans at that point (14 mile mark).

We also got to see plenty of 2 sets of people that re close to my heart. One were the paras, running for charities like the Afghanistan trust; close to me as I have aspirations of joining, having started the application process. The second were bereaved parents and families of lost children, running for the premature babies charity "Tommy's". This is close to me as 2 years ago my brother ran the London Marathon 2 years ago for the same charity after losing his 6 month old daughter after she was born prematurely - not long after he lost his 8 day old son due to similar medical reasons.

I've always wanted to run a London Marathon, and have now agreed to do it. I've even shaken on it with Math1e - so looks like next year we'll both be doing it. I think it may well be Tommy's that I choose to do it for too.

A big well done to all of you reading this who did run the marathon today - you all did very well, hope you enjoyed it as much running it as we did watching it.