1st November 2009 The day of the marathon dawned and we were up super early and bussed out to Staten Island. The atmosphere on the coach was a mixture of anticipation and heightened nerves: people feeding off each other, offering encouragement and...

Pre-Marathon Arriving in New York at about 4pm on Friday, we scooted over to the official Expo to pick up our race numbers and join in the pre-race build up. I’ve been to marathon expos before...

And so I've made it home in one piece, having completed the marathon in 4 hours 15 minutes and 5 seconds! You can link to search for my official time here. It was such an incredible experience I'm going to split my posts in to three: pre-marathon,...

Packing The Suitcase And A Word On The Weather... Off to a bad start today when I opened my case and a massive greeny-brown spider scuttled out, leaving me to get rid of its web before I could start packing. It's amazing how much stuff you need to...

Monday 26th October, 2009 It's now just seven days until we run the marathon and a mere four until we jet off to New York. To get in to the right mindset, I've been trying to push all doubts about my fitness and my injury out of my mind and focus on...