John McLaughlin’s Marathon Training

Well, it is all over – and despite my knee injury I managed to finish in just over 5 hours, I’m not sure exactly how long it took me as I forgot to stop my stopwatch!  The official results are meant to be on the website today, so I can find out then.  The good news is it is now my marathon personal best

I got to the start at about 8.30 and said goodbye to Helen and Rory, and then joined the 1000’s of other runners (13500 marathoin runners and 1000 relay runners), I eventually found my starting pen and did some light stretching while waiting for the start of the marathon – the sun was already rather hot.

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