London 2010

Well I thought I had better write about the big day after the training blogs. As you know from my blogs we had been following a training program consisting of only 3 runs a week ,1 speed sesh, 1 tempo run, 1 long run, with cross training on a couple of other day's. I have normally just built up my mileage with long runs but we decided to try this out, I must say though it was hard only 3 runs I was thinking it would be easy NO. We were tired. My program time was for a marathon time of 3.45/3.50 based on my mile pace /track times. Visiting the physio regulary helped as the weeks went by we all were having little niggles (injury's) IT problems, pulling muscles, with 3 week's to go I had to give the boot camp a miss and at one point was even wondering if I was going to get round the bloody marathon but I soon put that out of my mind. Nine of us from spen ran, five of us with Meg ,Henry& Stacey watching stayed at the Holiday Inn, very nice it was too, Saturday was a hot day and Sunday was on for a hot day also but it wasn't bad - ideal really except for that shower at 8am just as Hazel was saying it had said on tv it was going to rain. My feeling's on the day!I am normally a bag of nerves ,sweating palms, loo stops, but I was calm and remember thinking come on lets get this over with because I carn't be arsed, the first 9mile was fine doing 8.5 pace I knew Meg&Henry etc would be at 9 , I had actually ran past them ,then realised it was them I just had to run back to them about 50mtrs (well fight my way) sardines or what !Off again keeping pace up feeling good, the miles seemed to be flying by but about 17 my chest was getting tight and I was struggling to get lung capacitiy and at 18 had an asthma do lucky for me I had an inhalar on me , at this point I was thinking of a DNF. again I put this out of mind thanks to the crouds, so from that point I just tried to keep going by running & walking ,though I had no watch on (screen went blank on sat night) I was able to check mile splits and was upto 18 was still on for the predicted time I wanted.got to 25m and willed myself to run come on jac its only 10mins left most , but even seeing the 400mtr mark didn't help as I just stopped and thought sod it ive had enough of this, commentator was stating that Ewan Thomas was very near me with 400 to go and everyone had to try beat him in boy did I peg it ! didn't see him or his long red socks. finishing time 4.17, dissapointing for me but I know I can do better and I will do another marathon not london for a while though I didn't have that buzz.All in all a great weekend we raised £1,750.00 for whizz kidz.