Please drive carefully

I did better than drive carefully ... I ran carefully. Then walked. Then stopped. It's an unremarkable village, nine miles away from where I started, via a somewhat circuitous route. But Edinburgh is four weeks today - today's run should have been 20 miles, not nine. I've got my excuses but this isn't the place for them. This sign just needs to serve as a reminder that the next time I approach it I need to power through confidently for another ten or eleven miles. If I can do that - *when* I do that next week, all will be fine.

Fifty-two weeks ago, I ran the London Marathon. For all those who had the greater mental and physical strength than I did today, and completed it - I salute you, you should all feel as amazing as I did last year. You are better men and women than I am right now, but my time is next month.