Oh lordy, I'd not seen those! They were the last Flora - the year I did it (note I don't say 'ran' it as I don't think that would be fair on the proper runners on here!!!) I had the wonderful Nam and Bear as my support group that year, and it was them who inspired me to come the other side of the fence for the last couple of years, just to pay it back. It was so fab when Bear rocked up last year and we adopted him, and Loon into our support group (and I think we shared Foxy with Sweetest Thing at points too lol) to carry on providing hugs and jelly babies!!!!!
This is seriously one of the highlights of my year - I've made some lovely friends even though in most cases we only see each other at Mudchute! Sounds ridiculous but I absolutely love it and like Caz said it is such a proper lift when you come off the Island that is a bit more sparse for support than other areas to suddenly hit the wall of sound that is Runners World plus a couple of the charities that usually set up shop around us. My view is that it makes all the difference to be honest. And if people are running either ahead or behind of time we are always always open to sending texts/making calls to family members to let them know, think I did it about eight times last year as the weather was so freaky for London in April.
Bring it on is what I say, I can't wait!!!!!
