Marathon!

So, after months of training, the big day was finally here! A freezing cold morning on the 24th June saw me up at the crack of dawn, eating my porridge and raisins, before heading down to Wellington stadium to join a whole group of other crazy folk to run 42km around the waterfront.

It was incredibly hard - more so than I thought it would be - but I did it! I did it in 4 and a half hours which was an ok time. I walked quite a bit on the homeward stretch - into the wind it was a bit of a tough ask!

But, I feel great that I finally achieved my goal and when I'm 80 I can say that yes, once upon a time I was fit enough to do a marathon!

A big shout out to my wonderful support crew too - Adrian you were fantastic!!

At the start - go #9087!
At the 3km mark, just heading around Waitangi Park into Oriental Bay.

At the 7km mark, nice tail wind!

At the 23km mark in Seatoun, starting to feel the burn...

35km mark, running around by the airport.

At the 39km mark in Oriental Bay - putting on a smile for the camera!

Coming into the stadium, there was no way I could run up that ramp...

Homeward stretch

Finally finished! I look much, much better than I feel...blisters, cuts, incredibly achy muscles...the list goes on!