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Aldi ones - cheap and good.  I use them with capri shorts and cycling shorts to bridge the gap if it is cold too!

I've got the calf guards - Compressport ones and really don't like to run in them at all. 

2XU tights are  great!

I absolutely love Aldi running socks and always stock up when they are in.  Cheap and good. 

I've got the Hilly Twin Skins and find I get friction with them and hot feet.

I suppose PC plod is truer than we think!

I guess some comment have been harsh but if you've been training and trying I think you should be able to make it.  Follow the shoe advice others have given, stop wasting time arguing with people on here and get running.....

If they are just superfically muddy I leave them in the garage stuffed with paper.  If they are soaked through with mud I put the hose in to get the worst off, stuff then with paper and leave them in the garage!

I ran my second marathon of the year realising I was desperately undertrained.  I'd done a few tris in September and various events had conspired to mean I'd only run 12 miles come race day.

I set off with a very nice man who I remained with for the entire race.  I was ok until half way and although we were overtaken by a banana I realised it was going to be a long 26 miles.  After the loop of the half way point we saw the Pink Panther and I lived in fear of him over taking me. I was trashed by mile 18 and the final 3 miles were absolute torture.  I wanted to cry. I went over the line thanked Gary for his support and drove home, gutted.  My lesson has been learnt.  Don't think you can comfortably run a marathon on 12 miles, you can't. You are an idiot to think you can...

Unfinished marathon business for me!