So, I just wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone who donated, baked cakes, (ate cakes) and wished me well, through my NYC marathon journey. We raised £1666.00.. (with another couple of hundred for gift aid on top) for Get Kids Going! A phenomenal amount for a great charity.
It was 3 hard months, coming off the back of the double marathon at the start of the year that took its toll. My preparation was meticulous in this instance. I completed 97 runs, 980km’s and 85 hours missing one evening 8 km over the space of 14 weeks. It’s taken over a large proportion of my time! But being regarded as the hardest of the majors, and 35 – 40mph headwind (seeing the wheel chair race start off the bridge!) I ran pretty much my perfect race. 3.24.41, which is 4.50km’s or 7.49 min/miles… 3178th of 50236 runners, which is the top 6%. The fact that I actually felt like I could run again this weekend compared to when I did actually ran in London really has shown me how far I’ve come.
Boston, Berlin, Chicago and Tokyo remain on my majors list… guess there’s always 2015?!
Well done to +Iain Wallace , with a predicted time of 3.24.47 who was a mere 6 seconds out on my finish time. Great guess, and before it I’d have said it was pretty optimistic! Thanks for having the faith ;-) and also to everyone who took the time to make guess, it actually really helped and hope it was a bit of fun, and the last thing I wanted to do was hand over the winnings to a + 3.30 time!
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