London Marathon

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

I could not watch it all as was going to a rehearsal for a concert on sunday 30th april. But saw some of the start etc and what was so wonderful to me is the uplifting sight f so many decent people doing their best to help others and many charities. It has not been just a last minute thought. They have had to train and practice for some time. When we see the news of lying cheating politicians and selfish greedy people only concerned with their own lives to watch all these people making that effort and that we can see that there are more decent people in the world than the horrible ones. We just dont hear about them so much! I wish that they would put a bit of the run at the end of the news which is usually upsetting, annoying or both. Well done everyone who made such an effort.

Congratulations to all the runners. It's a wonderful event and great to watch. The elite runners seem to travel at the speed of a racing car. When my son took part, he sent his cheerleaders home on the bus, saying he'd follow on later using a city bike. They were all locked for the occasion, so he decided to walk home...

Well done to your son MaddyOne and to everyone else's friends and family who ran it too. We were travelling through London yesterday early evening and couldn't work out why the train stations and underground were so busy until we remembered it was marathon day! Our mainline train home was packed, full of exhausted runners with their medals around their necks, proud families and exhausted spectators who had covered the whole route. Lovely atmosphere !!

So good to see these mass events returning after the nightmare of 2 years of lockdown. A fantastic opportunity for participants to raise money for so many, worthy charitable causes. Our own Great North Run (half marathon) is scheduled to take place here on Tyneside on 10th September, when Sir Mo Farah will say his goodbyes after a long and illustrious career. We'll certainly be watching, as the route passes within 400 yards of our house.

When his wife died my son ran the marathon for Cancer Research but he didn’t train enough and came in with an hour to spare so he was really pleased especially as his 2 year old was waiting for him near the finish. However nobody mentioned about cutting his toenails and he was in agony and both big toe nails eventually came off! He made lots of money for the cause though and I was so proud of him.

It’s a real accomplishment to finish a full marathon. Good luck to your son. I know you and family are proud. 😃

Depending on his age and condition - if he’s motivated he can go for the gold! 🏅

Well done all 👏

My DIL ran in todays Marathon- 2nd one of 3 she’s doing to raise money for MND. My son went to London to support her, so me and Grandad had the kids, delivered here yesterday, returned to their home this evening.
To be honest, think me and Grandad are more exhausted after this weekend than DIL

Well done brave runners - I hope they all had a great day - running like this is no mean achievement!

Well done to your son,*Maddy*.

My son in law also injured his leg a few weeks ago but he was determined to do it.

Aren't they superstars!

Well done to your son, maddyone, your son-in-law, kittylester and to everyone who competed.

I’m sending my congrats to every single runner. What a magnificent accomplishment to run 26 miles. It takes a lot of training over months and years and I think they’re all wonderful to see it through.

My daughter’s got a place in the Berlin marathon in September but she’s got a back injury and so we’ll have to see. She did the Athens marathon pre Covid but no marathons since then.

kitty well done to your son in law and what a wonderful charity he chose to raise money for, an excellent achievement.
Thanks to all congratulating my son too, he did really well considering the injury he sustained at Christmas time. He had to up his run lengths too quickly so I’m told, because of the enforced rest over the injury period, so he really did well with that background. Plus his first ever marathon.

Very well done to your son MaddyOne and what a brilliant sum of money to raise for The Royal Parks.
The womens race was amazing and the Dutch girl who won was so down to earth she could not believe she came first.

Every single person who took part and ran are amazing watching all of them was so uplifting they all put there heart and soul into it and all of them deserve a medal

👏👏👏 to your son, Maddyone.

He raised nearly £2,000 for cancer research in memory of his mum.

4 hrs 59mins 26secs for my son in law!

Wow, your son is amazing maddy. Hope he wont be too sore in the morning.

Bravo to your son maddyone!