Back from the Marathon

It was an incredible day, will live long in the memory and have been so lucky to experience running London Marathon after only having started running at Park Run in late 2019.

Even before we started (10:15) it was getting warm.

Plan was to keep it at 5:45km for the first12k and assess from there with the aim of getting to half-way in two hours. Felt myself being dragged along by the other runners early on and 1st 5k was a little quick but I settled in after that. Had a bad patch a shortly before Tower Bridge but got through that ok. Second half I started to push it a bit – it was so hot I knew the last few miles would be brutal so thought I’d get as far as I could at 5:30 km pace in the shady areas. From 30km started to slow but was still steady and had decent chance at sub 4 but after 36km I knew that was gone. Even with all that training I’d done it was so tough in that heat (doesn’t help I’m 60+ now as well)

Saw Mrs KC and Amy and pals a couple of times and Gemma and her other half saw me and shouted at Canary Wharf which gave me a boost. I asked her to wear something easy to spot so she borrowed a Watford shirt from him!

I saw the St Lukes cheer zone as well which was great.

Carried a bigger bottle of water/ electrolytes at the start and took a bottle at each station – probably had 5 pints of fluid during the race. Went for pish 9:00am, next one was just under 12 hours after in the Canons Tandoori!

Afterwards we headed to Greek Street in Soho where The Running Channel had set up their pop-up shop for the week, this was a great idea we got away from the crowds, I could visit them for a second time in four days (I was there for their podcast on Thursday) and there was a decent pub very close by.

Later found out that the son of one of Mrs KC colleagues who was running around same pace as me had collapsed and was kept in overnight and not in a good way – but looks like he’s recovered now thankfully.

Cheers to Kev who put time up yesterday and to Mozzer who kindly supported St Lukes.

And I was 40 minutes quicker than Jack Wilshere!

Tim x

Posted By: KentonCanary on April 28th 2025 at 12:09:43

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