… 4 hrs 39 mins. Really? 4 hours and 39 minutes? Didn’t I say, I wanted to run it in under 4 hours? What happened? To cut a long story short: This London Marathon experience was so absolutely amazing, that I just didn’t want it to end. Every 10 seconds some else was shouting my name, cheering me on, offering me jelly babies, home baked flapjacks, hands to high five… Come on, who wants to rush through moments like these? In addition you are passing…
…44540! Unfortunately I posted a wrong number on Facebook a couple of days ago. If you want to track me via www.virginlondonmarathon.com make sure you track the right number. And here a picture for the more visual people among us. I am on the bus on my way to Greenwich, where it all begins. Start for my group is 9:45.
In less than 24 hours it is all happening and I will hopefully have covered the first couple of miles. If you are in London tomorrow you can come to one of the NSPCC cheer points. It would be great to see there! Check out royruns.com/cheerpoints, where I put together a list with little maps and the estimated times, when I will pass each point. But you can also track me. Â Go to www.virginlondonmarathon.com tomorrow and you should fine a…
I can’t believe it, I still have more than 3 days to go and the fundraising target of £2,000 is already reached. Everyone who thinks, Roy, you have done well, should think again. I am an notorious last minute person, who needs the sense of panic to complete things. That means, it is not me who archived this, but you. YOU, every one of you, has done amazingly well. I don’t know how I can thank you and let you…
I had this conversation with my nephew about winning the London Marathon and despite all my good points of not even having the slightest chance of “winning” he left a comment on my fundraising page: “Come on Roy you are going to win.” This boy has a sense of humour. But then my flatmate (he is one of the brainy ones and should know better) also went on about winning and today at the ExCel Exhibition Centre, where I registered…
On my way to register for the marathon and receive my running number. It is 44540 by the way and with this number you are able to track me live on race day via the official London Marathon website.
I got the vest for the Marathon quite a while ago, but was puzzled how my name would appear on it. Today I was going again through the fundraising material that was sent by the NSPCC and suddenly three black letter fell out of the envelope, R, O and Y, together with a step by step instruction how to iron this on my vest. I did it, it worked and it feels great! Traditionally NSPCC’s running vests are NSPCC green, but…
With 11 days to go I am entering the final spurt. And the fantastic news is, today you cracked two-thirds of the fundraising target! Yeah and a big thank you! I don’t really know how to express my gratitude, so expect a bit more thank you posts over the coming days. I still can’t quite believe how generous you guys have been. On the training front it is getting harder and harder to train less and less. I know, this whole tapering…
With only three weeks to go until the London Marathon it is time for tapering. That means all the hard work should be done by now, you don’t add more miles, but run less. So I left the house with the idea it’s gonna be easy. Big mistake. It must be that mind thing that makes or breaks it. My knees were again very tender, but now after 2.5 hours rather than 3. Anyway, I passed the Olympic Stadium. There…
I did see the foot doctor in the end. It is good sometimes to get check out by an expert. First and major thing: The pain in my foot is nothing to worry about and I can to my marathon. Yeah! But the doctor wasn’t to impressed by my barefoot running ideas (“hippie ideas” to quote him). His main point: My feet are perfectly fine, why do I bother to improve something that works. Hmm… He did not give me the…