thought was enough of a tiredness margin (I know I can do 10k in about 42mins) to bring me home in sub-3.15. But something happened in those last few miles, I totally lost my rhythm, pace and strength, the dreaded wall hit and once I had stopped once

another week! Then my plans are: The Thame 10K in June, and some other local races including the Otmoor Challenge (half-marathon) in July and then a September/October marathon - and I will be back to London in 2006!Cheeko, 3:55To quote from Lock, Stock

time - 2:41:46. Secondly, getting to the 20-mile marker and knowing that I could have a "mare" last 10K and still get a AAA Championship Place for 2006.What I would do differently: With hindsight I suspect that my long marathon-paced runs did

at mile 20 it was a simple case of running the last six miles home. Just a 10K Jon, just a 10K.....Moral of the story - never use the word "just" in the context of the last six miles of a marathon.These last steps really are a blur. I just remember pain

past me earlier on.Biggest surprise: getting to 20 miles in 2:22, well within my planned sub-3:15 schedule, and feeling good. I could have allowed myself to coast over the last 10K, but the noise from the crowds gives you such a buzz lift there’s no way

prepare you for that last 10K. You start feeling different degrees of pain, and all I could think of was that this is the closest thing I’ve done to childbirth (I might have to eat those words someday). It just hurts everywhere and you want it over even

language got bluer, we just wanted to cross that line, and all of a sudden there it was: 800m to go. We ran and ran until we had nothing left. The split shows the last two kilometres were at 10K pace. How, I have no idea.The thrill of crossing the line

the way and saw the casualty, I felt very emotional. I hope he is now recovering...One of the hardest things about the last 10K was trying to duck between the runners who had 'hit the wall' and were walking. They seemed to be out-numbering the runners