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OK, my VLM was crap....

the start ie last night was fantastic along with a great pasta party at a local school only 200 yds from the start..... great sleep and already to finaly have a good run at london in the 6th attempt......

Great start, held back nicely and was hovering round 7:17 and 7:19 min miles.... then disaster amd possibly the most FRIGHTENING experience I have ever had in running......

At the 1st Lucozade station the guy next to me took a bootle a slup the just throw it down at my feet, bearing in mind I was in the middle of the road and also the drinks station, foot hit the top of the bottle on landing and rolled my ankle, lost balance and straight over into a roll / fall... looked up and all I could see was runners hurldling me.... clippling me... thankfully one or two managed to stop and form a barrier to allow me to roll over to the side and to my feet, they took a few blows and expleteives from other runners, so who ever you are thank you. They helped me to my feet, and checked all was ok, as usual adrenaline was flowing so statered straight off running,with no major damage except pride (I thought)...... managed to maintain some sort of pace, and was still on for 3:2X:XX but as the miles went past so my foot ankle started to be uncomfortable... by 16m I was in the back of the St John Ambulance, again pride kicked in and asked them to tape it / bandage it up, which they duley did... after tihs I could not get back any pace and the heat was helping even though it wasn't too hot.... so just accepted that and aim was just to finish... which I did in 3:48:57 on the watch......

So another poor day oput at London, this WILL BE MY LAST LONDON, I cannot cope with the crowds, the noise, even though the atmosphere is great and just too many people........

Guts played up at the end to top of a poor day too....

There will be NO splits.....

Thanks to all the support from Fetchies and Runners World peeps, so much appriceated.....

Take care