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Lots of people wonder why I am did the marathon.

First of all Princess Alice is a great institution helping hundreds of people to enjoy the twilight if their lives. Unfortunately it cannot help all those that need its services and the main reason is a lack of funds.

Secondly, I am now 60. I want to show that everyone, even "pensioners" like me can get fit. By doing so they have end up with less medical problems, live longer but most of all they feel better and happier too. My training has already proved this to me and there are good scientific reasons too. Something to do with endorphins.

Finally over the last two years and with the encouragement of my work colleagues and fellow members of my running club, Ranelagh, in Richmond, I have come to love running. I now run more than 13 miles every Sunday morning. Watch out for me on the towpath from Surbiton to Kingston and from there around Richmond Park. Please say "Hello" when you see me. I am now doing something I enjoy for a cause that I really believe in. I am  now doing 20 miles most Sunday mornings and so far have not collapsed.

The marathon has been and gone. Something of an anti-climax now it is all over. I must express a bit of a disappointment in my  time. I had hoped for 3hrs 30min. but was never on schedule after 30 minutes despite meeting my co-runner from the Kingston Breakfast Run, Ed, purely by chance. What are the odds on this.? There were only 35,000 runners! I did not feel good from the begining and was soon slipping back on my schedule and had to let Ed run on. After 16 miles it really became a strain then I found myself in incredible pain. I was determined not to walk and pushed on, my pace falling from 8 minute miles to 10. I felt so awful I never saw any of my supporters except one from tte club. Apparently I looked so awful going past Temple with a mile to go that my wife and daughter burst into tears! When I got to the 600 yds to go marker, I did not know how I would run the last bit. I finished in 3 hrs 39 mins.

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