With all the social media posts and news articles I’ll admit to being a little envious of all the runners due to line up at the start of the London marathon this weekend.
I have a wonderfully good reason why I’m not participating, a beautiful baby boy, aged 5 months. With all the training involved in running a marathon I would have missed a lot of Sunday mornings, time I would not have got back.
That said, when I watch the runners Sunday morning I’ll still be very jealous. A few friends have just completed the Brighton marathon and in Nick’s words, it’s the best achievement he has ever done.
One day I’ll complete a marathon, whether I’ll ever get a chance to run London I don’t know, but there are plenty of others and I still have a few miles left in the old legs yet.
Until then, good luck to all the runners running, walking and competing in their spring marathons.