The marathon is now done, it was a brilliant event. The encouragement from Amaze, family, friends and the other 80,000 that turned up was much appreciated. For those of you that have already donated thank you very much. I do hope more of you will contribute to make the pain of those last six miles worthwhile - the last mile was very unpleasant, particularly with the smell of doughnuts and chips wafting in from the pier!
Regards Neil
Training Blog:
1 July: Need to get over the injuries before I can start this really.
13 October: After 5 months of frustration, I can finally do up to 7km and go out 3 times a week without the knee and achilles failing. Considering I now have some sponsors there is no getting out of it.
3 February: New year, new injury. Now it's the calf muscle. 7km, 3 times a week is a distant memory. "Keep buggering on". If it happens there will be no PBs just survival.
31 March: 18 days to go and the revised training plan is not going well. The most I have done it 18 km which is not even half distance.
11 April: 1 week to go and in a few days time can start carbo loading - basically eat like a pig. Stretching, using the foam roller, 15 mins in cold baths, all in an effort to make sure the calf muscles feel okay.
18 April: The legs held it together so I was able to run all the way in 3 hours and 52 minutes. Finally managed to beat Elvis in the last 500 metres.