Thank you

A huge thank you to all who supported us in our marathon. All the money is now in (just about). We raised a whopping

£2297

Your support means so much to us.

Thank you

Marathon videos

Now I have the chance to sit still, I thought I would link to some of the videos of the marathon.

Enjoy the course is high speed

Official highlights

And we are off

Crossing the finish line I am over on the left hand side just after a whole bunch of people in yellow shirts finish.

Me at 35 KM

Me at 30 KM

Me at 25 KM

Keep on running

From Paris Marathon

It took 5 hours and 8 minutes to complete - but that does not matter because I have finished a marathon.

I actually found the day quite good fun. There were lots of supporters out on the streets of Paris. We started off lining up by the Arc de Triomphe and ran down the Champs Elysees, do not ask me when we then went other than for a long run round Paris with a lot of it along the river taking in the Eiffel tower, which I almost missed as I was not really looking where I was going by that point. There were various bands on the side of the streets, which were a great motivation.

I was pretty impressed by the organisation, water stops every 5 km with water, oranges and bananas (making the ground pretty dangerous at points as covered in banana skins.)

Many people who had done marathons told me they were a race of two halves, the first 20 miles and the last 6. This made me pretty nervous as I crossed mile 20 but was still feeling pretty good (considering) and this lasted until about 21.5 miles. However I was picked up with a nice glass of red wine - yep you read that correctly the French being French serve wine on their marathons and it kinda helps!! Stopped to walk for a bit, sip my wine and chat to who was around me then carried on with an added spring in my step.

By 24 miles I was suffering and I was really struggling. Seeing the British Heart Foundation supporters at mile 25 really spurred me on to the finish line.

And there we have it, Heather the pacemaker girl, runs a marathon - what's next? Am quite tempted to try and finish in sub 5 hours!!

You can still sponsor us for completing this event.....

Training, Training, Training

My entire life has been taken over by marathon training, with only two weeks to go the pressure is on. Three nights a week are taken up with running then every weekend we fit in a long run. Following on from the half marathon I have done:

8th March - 15 miles (Banbury 15 race)
14th March - 19 miles

And now we are winding down so this weekend is was 12 miles.



Our usual long route involves a trip round Blenheim Palace, which has beautiful grounds I think I will never be able to look at in the same way again! The 20 miles was really hard work, with this last four miles being agony, adding another 6 miles seems impossible but I can but try on the day!!

Please remember we are raising money for the British Heart Foundation, a very worthy and relevant cause, so please sponsor us.

Brighton Half Marathon

These days I have no time for blogging, my whole life is consumed by Marathon training. Yesterday we did the Brighton Half Marathon as part of our training. 13.1 miles along the Brighton sea front to Hove then the Marina and back to central Brighton. It was actually quite an enjoyable experiance and good dressed rehearsal for the Marathon.

The first few miles went in pretty quickly did not really feel it until mile 7 or 8 when it started getting harder. Then just near about mile 11 we had some evil hills near the Marina, the worst thing being the finish line was in-sight as we ran towards it then did a U-turn and ran in the opposite direction for while before turning back for the final straight. My aim was to do it in 2:20 so when my official time was texted to me while we were having lunch (very organised I must say!) I was really chuffed with 2h:20m:35s. Joe and I ran the whole way together and it was great support for both of us. It was never about time, just about crossing the finish line and I am glad we took it steady and finished in one piece.
So now we just continue training for the Paris Marathon, which we are doing in aid of the British Heart Foundation, any donations will be greatly received.