Nearly six months ago I entered the ballot for the 2010 London marathon. Those months have gone quite quickly but the last coupe of days have dragged on. A letter is somewhere in the postal system on its way to tell me whether I have a place or not.For the past few days I diligently [...]
So, after a day of website problems I'm finally entered in the ballot for the 2010 London Marathon, along with 119,000 other hopefuls who all want to get their hands on one of the 30-odd thousand ballot places.My rough maths tells me that I've got about a 1 in 4 chance of getting a place [...]
Yesterday was London Marathon day so I jumped out of bed early (and hungover) to watch all the action on the tellybox. During the half hour or so of build-up the BBC showed before any actual running got underway I found myself getting quite emotional at people's stories about why they were running.Once the women's race got [...]