their little hands meant that it was good fun to run to one side of the road and high-5 them as you went past. Had to be careful not to do it too hard, but I bet there were still a lot of kids with sore hands from the hundreds of runners they had high-5’ed

at all felt like a huge achievement after struggling with my training all this year and only three weeks ago planning to pull out. This one was most definitely for him.Wixey, 3:28:47 This was my first competitive run of any kind. I have to say I'm very

patches. Meeting up before, during and after the race all added to the party atmosphere.I was badly affected by cramp from miles 20 to 23, probably not helped by my injury-restricted training over the last 8 weeks. At one point I stopped to stretch against

driven my wife to Vauxhall to be with her and wish her well. I got back home at about 4:45 a.m. but couldn't sleep with all the excitement. I had just run through Canary Wharf when the news came through via my wife and mobile phone that my beautiful