Days to the finish line!

As I write there is 6 days to go to the Virgin London Marathon which should make what I'm about to do i.e. run 26.2 miles in one go a bit more real; but it doesn't.  So I'm spending the week in a little bubble of denial.

This week I get to eat lots of carbs in a kind of anti Atkins diet which I'm really looking forward to.  I have become the type of person so fanatically scours the dietary information on the back of their food packets to work out whether or not it's worthy of consumption, cruelly rejecting items of low carbohydrate value.  All this is aimed to give me the maximum energy on Sunday.

The fantastic news which does seem real is just how much support I've received.  To date you've all helped to generate over £1,700 for Relate and my t-shirt is quickly filling up with names of the people in my Relate London Marathon Family.  One of the main tasks this week is to get the Relate balloons to our brilliant supporters who are coming out to cheer on the day.  I'm also harbouring a secret hope that I get to talk to one of the BBC film crews out covering the run on the day in part for the coverage it would get for Relate and also as I love to be on tv!

So 6 days of carbs, balloons, rest and running to the finish line to go and by the 7th day (Monday) I will be happily, if with achy legs, be at home recovering for running the marathon - I will be a marathon runner!