red bull laced with more flat red bull I was off, cunningly cutting the detour off my timing. I passed mile 20 at 3:01. A sub-4 was still on but I was too thick and/or confused to work it out and rumbled on steadily, picking up pace slightly from Big

trainer lace! This was an electronic chip which had my running number programmed in, so that when I past the starting line (where there was a special electronic mat) it would register that I had started. There were mats positioned across the road at 10km

sneaks us in to the Novotel Greenwich (with en-suite marathon).At the start we split into two pens, we're in pen 8, but are joined by mates from pen 9 by the time I've finished rearranging socks and laces. In the first three miles the crowds shout