Thanks for all your support, I stunned myself by turning in a virtually perfectly paced run with steady even 5k times to finish in 3 hours 53 minutes and 44 seconds (only six minutes off my best time, when I was a lot younger). So finished 9095 places behind the winner, but then he had a 2 minute head start so got ahead of the crowds!

 

Weather was kind to runners with rain and cloud for the first two and a half hours so it didn't end up as hot as feared, especially after Saturday was the hottest day of the year.

 

Little toe is not a pretty sight, legs don't like bending to go down stairs, but otherwise I feel fine, maybe this training stuff is over-rated! Time for a good long break until 2012!