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well stress fractures do exist but would have thought they were rare in upper femur. Your symptoms could be anything in the hip. 

I could have sworn that my hip problems were a fracture of upper femur it just felt that way. Intense pain on pushing down on leg. It was in fact the labrum (fleshy socket) of the hip that has become detached. Go and see a hip specialist, you never know.

By the way, all of the hip tests done manually even by specialist showed no hip problem at all. Only MRI disclosed the issue.

Amazed by some of the answers.

I intend to be there on time....but on the off chance wanted to know specifics on how long starting mats open for.

I have trained. I would love to come day before but cannot for good reason and unforseen circumstances which are very irritating.

I will have a number...that is all sorted.I have a bike picking me up at Euston and will be at Blackheath in less than half an hour. I have done this before.

I deserve to be there as much as anyone.

As for Muzza you are making poor judgements and you are unnecessarily provocotive. Why not have a go at the 5000 people who  have not trained, who cannot run, who will get in everyones way, who will end up in St Johns tents and should not be there at all.

I'm planning on going to be late for London marathon (trains)

Official start time 0945

I am a 315 runner, do you reckon I could start at say 1030 and all be ok timing wise?

massive hold ups doing this? or wait for masses to depart and enjoy passing everyone?

I have suffered tightening of calves when I run over 10 miles. Its a gradual tightening which if I then didnt adjust my style to stretch the calf on the move then they would then pull (weeks out)

I have done many things; (marks out of 10 for impact by each)

1-strengthened glutes - 7

2- stretches -6

3- calf sleeves -4

4-moved from toe/forefoot runner to mid foot (v hard) - 8

5- calf strengthening -?

6- moving ankle around whilst running ( stretches on the move) - 8

7- concentrating on not under pronating (in fact trying to force my foot to strike more on the indside rather than outside) -8

8- Kinisiology tape -9

sometimes when things have worked it has resulted in better calf but painful quads.