My Forum

This was the first time I've done the Royal Parks and I was not disappointed; good organisation and a nice flat course that showed London at its best.

 My only big moan is about the last few miles being very congested and having to fight through selfish walkers (I won't call them runners) who decided to walk along chatting two, three or four abreast, blocking people from getting through.

 Some walkers also had headphones in so even an 'excuse me' was useless and a shove was required.

 The paths towards the end are narrow, so there needs to be signage encouraging walkers to stay to the side or on the grass - and headphones should be banned (at the risk of opening up an old debate...yawn). As I went with one of the later waves, I was running through the stragglers of earlier waves who had either gone off too fast or over-estimated their fitness and the paths were just not wide enough to cope.

That said, I was happy with my time and enjoyed the race a lot.

It seems to me that Heineken Cup rugby has become more intense than test match rugby -certainly as far as the English players are concerned.

I used to go to every match at Twickenham but can't be bothered now.

It's brilliant that Paula's racing the GSR this year.

I think it's a shame that this race doesn't usually get more coverage - hopefully Paula's appearance this year will help raise the profile a bit.

I suspect that Five wouldn't be offering live coverage if Paula wasn't taking part!

I just read the press release this morning.

I'm a bit surprised that they're not trying to tie up a joint sponsorship arrangement with all the World Marathon Majors events to unite them under one sponsor.

But then, when Virgin have paid £17,000,000 for the London alone, maybe I shouldn't be.

Good luck to them, I say. I can think of worse sponsors.

Well folks, what do we think?

A mad, leftie, manipulative, cynical, terrorist-loving has-been, or...

...a promiscuous, imbecilic toff with silly hair.

The agony of choice.