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London Marathon 2007
22nd April 2007 Race Reports:- If you have a race report, please e-mail your story to me at chris.gladwell1@btinternet.com It was the biggest ever London Marathon and it was one of the hottest. What a great sense of achievement to complete a marathon in the conditions like the ones we had on Sunday. If you ran this year you can look back at finishing with a sense of pride. Well done to all the runners from Stowmarket Striders running club. Roger Aldis ran the perfect race – constant 6:20 pace throughout and a negative split. I know he was aiming for 6.15 pace but we can forgive 5 seconds a mile in those conditions. Roger and Ian were the second and third Suffolk runners to finish. The second half of Ker’s run was only 2½ minutes slower than the first half. Lorraine ran a PB!Congratulations to all the first-timers – it’s not always such hard work – and I look forward to next year and seeing all those runners who said “never again” lining up on the start. Well done everyone. Results
Race ReportsChundering FairiesDeveloping Morton’s Neuroma a couple of months before FLM had messed up my high mileage training somewhat, had even thought about pulling out a month before, but with help from some expensive insoles and a great Doctor I managed to get in a couple of 20 milers. Running a 4 miler 3 days before FLM and the foot pain, (which feels like running on broken toes by the way, ouch!) had started at 3 miles, I wasn't feeling very hopeful waiting for the big day to arrive. On the Saturday I couldn’t believe it when trying to add more music to my Ipod ready for FLM I wiped it clean by mistake so then spent the next 7 hours trying to put it right, I hate technology! But like everyone else who was going down to London on the coaches up I got up at 4.45am and proceeded to make my porridge and coffee for my flasks, bleary eyed and yawning. I didn’t feel very fairy-like as I donned my dress and wig that made up my fancy dress costume. Having collapsed on my last 2 FLM’s my thinking was that if I dressed up I would be mistaken for a fun runner and forgiven for walking but also that I might get dealt with a bit quicker if I went down! Joe was up by this time too as he was coming to support me but being called by him to the PC twice whilst I was getting ready because he had an urgent need to look on EBay and my PC was playing up didn’t go down to well at 5.30am and the phrase ‘You’re having a laugh’ was used a couple of times as well as a couple of other well known phrases! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||