This will be a very brief report - I know that many hundreds of you will want to know how I managed today in my first practice on the 2012 Olympic Marathon course.
Today's London Marathon was staged in blistering heat - a factor which caused not only hundreds of runners to require medical assistance - but also beggared up the chances of one of my 2012 rivals Haile Gebrselassie who bottled it and dropped out after 19 miles. Another so-called world class athlete with an inferior finishing record than your man here.
I survived the damn thing - but it was such a brutal event and your hero now hurts like he's never hurt before. The heat was such that my race tactics switched rapidly from a target time - to simply getting round in one piece. My time of 4 hours 58.46 is my second slowest time at the distance - but nevertheless I was just so chuffed to finish in one piece.
I think I finished just outside the top 10 and certainly I reckon my performance will have the competition quaking in their trainers.
My only disappointment was losing a desperate sprint to the line to two Bakewell Tarts and a cup and saucer.
I'll bring you a full race report and some piccies in due course - but for now, I'm just going to sit here and hurt.
Keep on tapering.
Ron
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Ouch!
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Hi Ron, sorry I didn't recognise you. I thought it was just some bloke with a bad chat-up line. If my charity had a pound for every time I heard "have you dropped one?" yesterday then I'd be well over my target for the year!!! Those convicts were very rude at the Green start, which is used by celebrities such as you and I, as they all went for a wee together and some of them couldn't fit into the portaloo cubicles and.................well you can guess the rest.
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