WE DID IT, WE DID IT, WE DID IT!!!

In case you did not get that, WE DID IT!!!

4 hours 22 and 5 seconds exactly for both of us. Hot weather, leg was ok, most difficult physical thing we have ever done. YES it was an amazing experience but NO we did not enjoy it all - the last 6 miles were physical agony...

We did not walk at all - if we had stopped we would not have got going again... We were walking around like old ladies yesterday and although better today, I still look like I have been run over!!

Full report will be coming out at some point but in the meantime, here are our results and some cracking pictures...

1 day to go!!!

Last night I had a horrible dream that I could not find my race number and that I was late to get to the start etc etc... Just in case I have already laid out all my kit and got EVERYTHING ready to go...

SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE!!!

Keep track of your money...

If you want to check how Grumps and I are getting on tomorrow, you can track us using our ChampionChip... If you google London Marathon and scroll down the options you can find a link through the Telegraph to track us!! All you need to know are our numbers which are: me 45416, Grumps 45415...

So check how safe your money is and how fast we are going!!

The good news is that I ran 2 miles today with barely a twinge so I am now really excited and can't wait to get out there - starting without pain will really help!

There is a reason people jogging do not smile.

I have heard on a number of occasions, people commenting that they never see a jogger smile. Daddy for one is always saying that obvioulsy no one enjoys it because you never see a happy runner.

WELL, there is a reason. This evening, as I was driving over Battersea Bridge, a man was jogging along the pavement and he was actually smiling to himself. In fact, not just smiling, he was laughing at times. And my thoughts? He looked like a total nutcase. If I had been walking I would have crossed the pavement to avoid him.

It is similar to if you are sitting by yourself in a public place, be it a bus stop, airport, bar, etc., and someone comes up and says "Go on smile, it may never happen..." Why would I smile if I am sitting by myself??? Everyone around would think I should be committed if I just sat around grinning inanely at the passing world.

So don't be fooled by the lack of smiles, there are people out there who enjoy jogging!!!

Ultra Endurance Athletes.

Grumps and I have our numbers - yippee!!!

We headed out to the Excel centre last night (on that note,what is with the crazy little DLR toy train thing? Very bizarre invention!) to register for the marathon and pick up our numbers and ChampionChip timers for our laces. Annoyingly, we have discovered that we are in Pen 9 of 9, which means that not only will it probably take us ages to get to the start line, but we will be with all the craziest fancy dress people as well... Never mind, not much we can do about that now!

At the marathon expo we also picked up LOTS of freebies (most random of which was cranberry sauce) and bought lots of useful running things. We each bought a snaztastic number belt which we can load up with our number as well as wine gums and energy gel sachets like an ammo belt.

I was slightly nervous because having read the marathon magazine, on pretty much every other page it mentions this condition called hyper-ponotami-a-somthing-or-other which means drinking too much and which caused the death of a marathoner in 2007. Terrifying! Luckily the lucozade man told me that the chances of that actually happening were very slim. He also kindly gave us a wrist band telling us exactly when to drink / have gel / wine gums etc...

More importantly, he also told us that if you run for over 4 hours you are classed as an ultra endurance athlete!!!! We were very happy to hear this and will now procede to tell everyone we meet. Although, as Grumps pointed out, this seems a little unfair to those who are actually very good runners and do a really good time and as a result come in at under 4 hours...

It was very exciting going to the expo and made it all seem very real. I am definately getting nervous excitement at the prospect of Sunday. Unfortunately I also now have a cold - the Gods are against me for this run obviously...

I thought I would add that in because what with 5 weeks of missed training, a gammy leg and a cold, it is unlikely that I will be anywhere near the target time (Grumps may well be with me but I am still thinking she should run on)... It is important that I point out all these difficulties, then either way I am a winner... If by some freak energy explosion I manage to do it in under 4 1/2 you will all be even more impressed. If however I don't then I can profusley blame the pre-commencement conditions you were all aware of and they won't sound like made up excuses...

Sly plan I know but it's good to be prepared...

(Another cracking motto I heard: Pain is the weakness trying to escape... Loving these mottos; what kind of crazy head case says something like that anyway???)

Tick tock tick tock!

Only a few more days to go until the BIG day is upon us... After months of training it seems bizarre that the day has suddenly come - the last weeks have flown by and suddenly we are nearly there. Grumps and I are off the register tomorrow after work and we are planning on half inching as many freebies as possible to help on the big day!!

We would love lots of you to cheer us along the way on Sunday and hope to see some of you there. Immediately after the run Grumps and I are heading to our charities meeting point but after that we are going to meet in the Kings Arms, Sheperd Market, we hope to be there by about 3.30pm, depending on the leg!!

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Not sure what state we will be in, or if we will be able to walk, but if we have to crawl there then we will... See you at the bar, mine is a pint of apples please!

We will definately let you all know how we get on afterwards, and thank you SO much again for your super generous donations, it is giving us the motivation to get through the final stages!!

Trot on Grumpy, I'll freewheel on by...

Grumple, Neil and I were staying with Antonia and Nick in Gloucestershire this weekend and on Sunday morning we set out on various activities. Grumpy ran 7 miles and Antonia and I followed on bikes.

As we cruised past Grumpy on our bikes, freewheeling down a hill, I actually felt ENVIOUS of her running!! Of course, if I was able to run and had been with her, I would have been desperate to be on a bike; it is quite amusing to be envious of somebody doing something that I don't even like, purely and simply because someone else has told me that I am not allowed to do it... I seem to have reverted to the mentality of a two year old!

I did a shorter bike ride of 14 miles on Sunday but it means that I did do nearly 50 miles over the weekend so hopefully that will have done something for some part of my fitness!

Grumps is still insisting that we run together. I think we will start together and see how we get on - as we know this is the only time either of us are ever going to do it it seems only fair that if I am struggling, she should jog on and get a good time. Ironically, Grumpy says she does not mind running with me because the time is not important to her, whereas it is VERY important to me (silly competitive nature that I have...). I have a feeling I may be able to change her mind on the BIG day though...