Dublin Marathon

[UpsidedownA (Andrew)]

Hi All,

Come the October Bank holiday weekend I will be dragging my behind around the streets of Dublin in aid of Crumlin children's hospital. Please sponsor me and help raise money for a genuinely good cause.

http://www.cmrf.org/user_main/fundraiser/36588

Andrew
p.s. is anyone else here running the marathon?

[ColmR]

Best of luck Andrew. Hope the training has gone well...
I'll be running it as well :-)

[barkar]

Best of luck , manys the time i took a jaunt around that course ! best of luck ye have the hard work done , hay is in the barn etc. sure ye are in the middle of tapering now

[Eoin]

I'm working on getting to 5k at the moment. Good luck with it, I'll try to sponsor by end of month. In fact if you want to remind me by PM after the 25th, I'll get on it.

Sent using a complex system of semaphore and ninjas.

[UpsidedownA (Andrew)]

The weather is not looking good for it. Starting to feel pretty nervous now.

[Padraic]

Best of luck with it Andrew! I hope you get a dry run!

[UpsidedownA (Andrew)]

Oh God it was so awful! I finally crossed the line after 4:49:09 and was definitely feeling a little the worse for wear. I managed to run the first 19 or so miles but then my knees went on strike and I just had to walk and watch the world go by. I walked about 4-5 miles in the end (from Clonskeagh road, up behind UCD past RTE and didn't start running again until the RDS). The crowd were really great. I was feeling really crippled but they would shout out people's names because the organisers cleverly thought to put your name on your little race number. The crowd could see who needed a little encouragement and single them out. Loads of little fellas were holding out their hands to high five you as well. I would have walked more were it not for the crowd. On the last stretch especially I was just dying to walk/hobble to the finish line but so many people were there shouting and cheering you on that it was hard not to make that last extra effort.

I feel like I need panelbeating now. Cheers for everyone who sponsored me.

[Rossa]

Well done. Just wait for tomorrow. Sleep downstairs if you can!

[barkar]

Well done ,  don't think you were the only one who struggled I had a few mates who blew up in the last few miles , rest up and don't drink too much