No Sleep til London by REAO69

Only just posting my blog now because only got home from London at 1 am.

I'm still struggling to walk and have a couple of bad blisters but hey....

WHAT A DAY!!!!

This is the reason why I couldn't think of a title. It was such a day of highs and lows and good things and bad things.

I've read a few blogs and they are all quite long so I'll try and keep my as short as possible.

Got on train at 8am thinking this was fine as we only had to get first tube one stop and then the DLR 6. Got to DLR to be told we would have to get off at somewhere (lost my sense of belief when the guard was telling me this!!) and walk for 3 miles or get another train back to Tower Hill and then another train to Greenwhich, which could take up to an 1:30 because of travel chaos!

We opted for the 3 mile walk. But fortunately we managed to get a lot closer. But we still had to run about a mile to the start and then still started about 35 mins aftrer the official start.

Boo to all the spectators that stayed on the trains when they could see desperate runners standing on the platforms unable to get on!

Anyway, got to the start. I wil diversify so I've decided to post several blogs containing different parts of my experience.

I haven't blogged since my calf injury because I wasn't convinced that I was going to make it to the start due to this, but I did!!

I had bought a calf support at the Expo as a last minute precauction (although I knew this was just panic setting in!).

Expo was brilliant and very well organised. Didn't really queue for anything. Which for that amount of people is very good!

Then came my first virgin marathon runners mistake. Pounded the streets with the family doing the tourist bit. All day and after we checked in to our hotel, all night until gone 10pm.

I seem to remember somewhere that you should lie in a darkened room and not move a muscle for the whole 24hrs before the race :-). Who knows, but we never...

See next blog entry later.