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Alex's London Marathon adventure - by alexalder

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I'm so excited to be in the 2010 London Marathon... Please do visit my sponsorship page if you haven't done so already - http://www.justgiving.com/AlexAlderMarathon - remember those nice people at Barclays will be doubling all donations!

The dream started in 2006, watching the marathon on TV with Annabel (then 5) and seeing Paula Radcliffe being generally amazing... Annabel spent the next few months wanting to be Paula and I couldn't get the fab course out of my mind. I ran bits of it and thought how amazing it would be to do it for real... although 6 miles was the furthest I'd ever run.

I've never been organised enough to apply but in early January this year got the offer of a late cancellation from those wonderful people at World Emergency Relief... since when I've been training in earnest! I'll be updating my blog after each run with details of what I'm up to and how much it's hurting...

Plus photos from anyone quick enough to snap me on their cameraphones as I dash round Central and Sotuh East London...

Tags: london, marathon, Virgin London Marathon, running, United Kingdom event.

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Results of latest train race

8:10 a.m. on 5th February 2010
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Another "6 miles steady" and I tried to pack it in before work in the morning...

Kind of needed to leave at 7.05 to be sure of catching my train but got a bit delayed; so it ended up as more of a 6 mile sprint... I wasn't actually sure how far the station I was aiming for was and I only had 52 minutes; in the end managed 6.25 miles in 46 minutes - do those are 7 1/2 minute miles - very happy with that!

My Marathon book says "make goals fun", I'm not sure if racing a train is really all that enjoyable but it does bring the tally to an impressive Trains 1, Alex 3, so I'm increasing my lead...

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