Sunday 26th april was the london marathon and myself Hazel ,Elizabeth,Meg,Kevin,Edward,Clare, and Dave travelled down friday and saturday all ready for it ,apart from injurys and viruses in the last two weeks,myself included but raising money for whizz kidz i wasn't about to give up now ive trained hard for months as we all have , right upto going to register i was having doubts weather i was fit enough after being in bed most of the previous week, but i soon found i was saying my good bye's and good luck's to the girl's they were on blue start while i was on the red,this was their first marathon and i just wanted to be there for them as i had managed to talk them into it all those months ago, in the end they were ther helping me . I wasn't nervous at all [that makes a change] i was well hydrated etc i was trotting along mile 1 was 7.57 i thought i had better try slow it down but i was comfy at the pace i looked again at mile 5 ,43 min i was fine! at about 9 or 10 i saw edward we ran together for 2 or 3mile by this time i was begining to struggle with my breathing so i let him go , as i got to 13m i started to feel dizzy so i stoped for a breather from then on it was very hard work i could not get any air in my lungs people were dropping like fly's around me ,yeah it did cross my mind to pull out ,but im no quitter and i wanted to be at the finish for the girls and whizz kidz . i just kept walking a bit and running the support was fantastic allthough i did get fed up of my name being called, the further i got the more determind i was of crossing that line ,at 20m i needed the loo badly![this was the second loo stop] not like me at all by the way. it was at 24m before i got to the loo's, i could not run another step at this point without having an accident . 5/7 mins later i joined the masses once more , how i managed to run the last 2m i don't know Eilzabeth and Hazel appeard at 24m together,looking fine and telling me they were enjoying it, while i felt like i was dying, finishing within a few mins of each other we waited for Meg to come in safe and sound , Meg trooped up with a bandaged knee courtsey of st john's [runner's knee] but we all did it ! and allthough i had a bad run with a crap time [for me] it hasn't put me off even the girl's have gone from saying its their one and only marathon to entering the ballot for next year.
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