London Marathon

My daughter was tracking quite a few people she knows who were running. We had the TV on but I find watching huge crowds running rather uninteresting. I only know 2 of her friends who were running so certainly not going to try to spot them.

Of course I'll be far more interested when she runs herself. She's not up to doing a marathon yet but is training for a half marathon later in the year. She plans to raise money for Scottish mountain rescue who rescued her from a mountain in May last year when she broke and dislocated her ankle! I'm really proud of the recovery she has made so far and the work she is putting in to achieve this. She asked how much her rescue cost and they estimated about £6K! I doubt she'll raise that much but her target is £1K. Being airlifted to hospital is an expensive business!

Thank you everyone who has congratulated my son and others who ran in Sunday’s marathon. Again I congratulate all the runners, especially those we all know.
Despite my children all running regularly and running half marathons and my daughter actually running one marathon, I have never been so involved and excited as I was on Sunday when my son ran the London marathon. Maybe because it is so famous and run in Britain, I don’t know. They’ve done the Great South Run a few times, and various other ones, but London was something special.
Thank you for all your comments.

maddyone

Whitewave he’s running for the Royal Parks. Not really his choice or ours but his place was awarded through his Chambers, who have put up several of their barristers/staff to run, but agreed to raise the money for the charity of the Royal Parks. I would prefer he was running for a hospital or whatever but he isn’t. Can’t help that, still enormously proud of him.
He did point out to me that I loved visiting Richmond Park when he actually lived in London, but they moved out of London about four years ago.

When we lived in a flat above a shop in London, with two small children, the Royal Parks made a huge difference to our lives.

Even more so to those living in tower blocks so a very worth while cause.

The large green areas must also be a plus for the environment as well.

Oh that’s such a kind comment Kamiso and makes me feel pleased he raised so much money for them. It’s good to know everyday Londoners benefit in that way. I hadn’t thought of it that way before. Thank you.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65399371

This was sad.
A seasoned runner, who ran the Marathon in 2 hours 53 minutes, sadly died on his journey home.

That was very sad. Runners do die sometimes. I don’t think humans were designed to run for 26 miles really. That’s why it’s a tremendous achievement when it’s done successfully. But very, very sad about this man who died.