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Celebrations!
Apr2320128:52 p.m.
"Well done folks!" "Looking Good!" "Come on, you can do it!!" ... And boy did you?! I was screaming at the top of my voice yesterday! What an amazing atmosphere. All credit to Fiona, Julie and Juliette and the rest of the CHECT team who managed to set up a fine camp at mile 20. We were in position from 10.30am (and some a little earlier than that) thinking off you all setting off on your epic adventure. You did us all proud.
I've checked the results of as many of the names that I can find/had access to from the CHECT runners and I can report that all finished in good time! Fiona will correct me if I get any of this wrong but I was delighted to see most if not all of your surprisingly cheery faces at mile 20! I think we had a few high fives in there too. Well done to all of you - Joe was first back in an astonishing 3h24 time. Incredible - we will have to start you with the elite next time Joe! And Nicola - what a heroic effort after your incident at mile 3. I've always thought that chucking water bottles was an accident waiting to happen. Hope you got some attention when you crossed that finish line!
Great work from all of you in what I'm sure will be a very memorable and proud day. The smiles said it all. I watched the coverage last night too and I was welling up too.
Chect were tweeting throughout: https://twitter.com/#!/ChectUK so your moments were captured on line. If you have any photos do send them to Fiona and the team.
I would just like to spare a thought for runner Claire Squires and her family - her sad and very sudden death yesterday has cast a shadow over the marathon celebrations and as you will no doubt see from the news reports. I'm sure all our runners will join me in sending our condolences to her family.
So finally I would just like to end this blog with some words I was shown yesterday from an interview in the Observere that seemed to sum up my attitude to running. I dont know about your experiences but I do wonder if any of you have been changed because of this marathon experience.
"We run because it allows us, albeit briefly, to enter another world. Often this may involve discomfort or even pain, a sense of alienation from our normal comfort zone that reminds us of our mortality and makes us respect our capabilities and limitations." Jamie Doward - I couldnt agree more...
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