My marathon report

I finished! 5:26:48. You can get all the finishing times at http://www.blackpoolmarathon.com/results.html. The first 10 miles were pretty good, then the lack of breakfast really hit me and I started to struggle. Meg was an awesome race supporter and brought me a banana, which helped for a while, then another one which totally got me through. I did a mixture of running and walking – I had planned to do between 1 minute and 0.1 mile in every mile, which worked for the first 13-15 miles (it’s all a little hazy in there) when I started walking more and more. Finally around 21 miles I started to rally and finished pretty well. We spent the rest of the day riding the highest and fastest roller coaster in Europe and with me eating pretty much everything put in front of me.

I’m totally sore, and incredibly happy, and already thinking about the next one. Meg has requested it be a bigger one so she’s not so bored. I’m hoping to improve my standing on the celebrity marathon runner list:
George W: 3:44:52
Oprah: 4:29:20
-->Megan: 5:26:48
Katie Holmes: 5:29:58
Mario Lopez 5:41:41
Freddie Prinze Junior 5:50:49
David Lee Roth 6:04:43

If you want the blow-by-blow, I’m putting it on my running blog to spare you all the 4 pages, but here are the photos courtesy of Meg.
Here's me getting ready:

Here's all the things I needed to run:











The morning of the marathon:










Here go the wheelchair racers:










The runners are off:










I'm in here somewhere:










At mile 2, I saw Meg before she saw me:

























At mile 19, I was struggling - but still smiling (I think - that might be a grimace):










I finished:














Here's me and my medal in my T-shirt from Ginger:

Spring snow

We had the biggest snow storm of the year yesterday. I took my camera and Turbo and went to the park, and I'm glad I did because the snow is all gone by this morning (except for a few sad pieces of snow people). Pictures on Flickr as usual, but here's my favourite.