Happy London Marathon Shouldabeen Day! It’s lovely out there again - blue skies, a light breeze... gosh imagine if we’d been able to run!

To mark the occasion I decided to run a “metric marathon” instead of the full distance. Basically, it was worrying my wife and I that sure, I could run it, but what if I hurt myself or pushed myself so hard that it left me more susceptible to getting ill.

I didn’t really know where I’d end up today, just headed for the river, but stayed away from the route landmarks in case it was busy with other folks doing their own replacement run.

It was mostly quiet when I started out, but as the morning went on it got more and more busy. Wish I’d gone out earlier!

Along the way I discovered a few new places - including Russia Dock Woodland and Stave Hill Ecological Park. I’ll definitely be back - it’s a beautiful slice of nature I didn’t even know existed.

So this marks the end of me talking about the London Marathon for a bit. I’m not convinced it’ll happen for the public in October, so I’m drawing a line here. I’ll mull over what my new challenge for myself will be. Open to suggestions! I’m thinking perhaps continuing my half marathon a week and seeing if I can do fifty in a year, or something like that.

Thanks for all your support and thumbs up along the way everyone. It means a lot to have a little group of folks I can share the ups and downs with.

As Emily said at the start of all this, the aim isn’t to run the marathon, it’s to become the kind of person who runs marathons. Maybe not yet, but I’m definitely going in the right direction!

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A bunch of us are doing this -> The Milestone Pursuit Metric Marathon 26.2km