. Neither Wonder Woman was female. And it was great to see Mr Incredible staking a claim for the next generation of heroes.And gents, please, do not underestimate the power of jogger's nipple. I'd never seen it in extremis before, always assuming it was a
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
's my running hero Being on camera FOUR times (I'm the one being overtaken by Martin Lel at 25 miles and John Brown at the very end) Breaking my target time of 3 hours (it's taken me 4 attempts) Crossing the finish line before Big Ben struck 12 o
. He looked gutted.The most memorable moment was seeing my football hero Tony Cottee struggling out of Docklands and, as a fellow runner for the Bobby Moore Fund, giving him a "gee-up."For future events, I will train properly rather than doing one run a
before the finishing line - what a sense of achievement!I cried at the start, each time I heard a band playing, when one old lady in Deptford shouted out that we were all heroes, and when I went over the finishing line I was crying hysterically, only
event and it still chokes me.I was expecting my best moment to be running down the Mall, but to be honest when I got there I really couldn't care less!The best bits by far for me were the starting line (knowing that I was part of the best marathon
and Canary Wharf....By mile 15 my legs were really heavy, and no amount of water, bananas, energy gels or jelly babies (provided by the heroes of the RW support team) were waking them up. I had felt much better than this in training, but it wasn't 18 degrees
managed to catch up with Superman, and Robin was way behind. Neither Wonder Woman was female. And it was great to see Mr Incredible staking a claim for the next generation of heroes.And gents, please, do not underestimate the power of jogger's nipple. I
Pipe Band that had just finished playing, I ran over to the Band Master and asked would he play "Highland Cathedral" which is my favourite piece of pipe music? One of the pipers shouted to me, "you're my f***ing hero mate - not a problem!" I then ran
, and the last four miles were an amazing finish to a great event. Coventry Cat, 4:22What an amazing day!I woke very early, way before my 6am wake-up call, opened the curtains at my hotel to see the clearest of blue skies. I stuffed breakfast down before greasing
