...you enjoy passive running!

So there were two big events this week. The major one being my really good running friend completing her first ever marathon, the Virgin London Marathon! A fantastic blog about this can be found at..... http://hongeontherun.wordpress.com/ She did a fantastic job of 1) not stopping at all and 2) not even going to the loo for the full 4hours 44mins!

My Sunday was a little different to Hollys but similar in a couple of ways...

• I got up early
• I was nervous
• I had 2 packs of sweets and 2 bananas stuffed in my bag 
• I was really really tired and hungry by the end of the race

The only difference with this list is that I didn't get a medal as I didn't run the 26.2miles. I did however run around like a crazy person though with the help of tfl. Our Sunday started at mile 7 just past the Cutty Sark where about 10minutes after James, Paola, Reis and I arriving we spotted Holly. Well James did and me and Paola scanned the crowds until we finally saw our blonde haired friend with her short shorts running in the middle of the pack. We screamed her name so loud making sure she saw us. That she did and for a split second I thought she was going to turn around but off she went. Paola and I were very emotional at that point and were eager to get to our next stop, mile 14.
 Mile 14 meant walking past mile 21 so we got to see some really fast runners pound the ground getting amazing times! We set up post just along a really narrow street around mile 14 and I broke into the first packet of jelly babies. I didn't really know what to do but two really friendly men just told me to stick them in my hand and wait. That I did and it worked! I felt so happy to help people out while yelling encouragement. We got to mile 14 really early for Holly so it seemed ages until she came along and again James was the first one she saw. At this point she was over taking people so again we screamed encouragement at our favourite VLM runner and turned around to get to mile 21.
 We were going to try for mile 19 at this point but thought that we seeing Holly at 21 was more important and we shouldn't risk missing her. We tried to get a drink while we waited but the pubs in that area were a little dodge to say the least so we parked up at mile 21 and started clapping and yelling again.
  People I saw at this point were; a barefoot runner, a fetcheveryone.com runner, 2 Irish flag runners, an Aine, a Cookie, a star, a horse, a man in a leopard print outfit, Pierre, and many many more! This was also a point were people started to walk and I wasn't sure whether encouraging these runners would just annoy them. We got to see Holly again at this point where she muttered "It's so hard" but we wouldn't hear any of it and just kept screaming!

Holly at mile 21

At this point we got ourselves to the finish area where we waited until we could either call Holly or see her. We managed to find her and she was so happy! A little tired and achey but she looked great! She did such a great job and I have never had as much fun not running a race! Passive running is the best fun ever!! I would recommend it to anyone :)

Now my second event of the week is minuscule compared to Holly's feat but this morning I reached 200miles logged for this year! I think I may try to get 600miles for the year....we'll see. Last year my grand total was 292miles so I'm hoping to boom past this number and make it a bumper running year!

Roll on my long run Saturday!