Gary - I just had a look at your website, and am very impressed with your work. (
http://mysite.freeserve.com/Gary_Blackman for anyone who missed it).
I'm also a Shawshank and Green Mile fan. I was always a bit snooty about Steven King until I read the Shawshank Redemption on holiday one year. A great film. I have it on DVD, and watch it from time to time at 2 in the morning when I'm drunk. When I was in the US last year we hired a car for a week after the Chicago marathon and went off round Michigan and Ohio. In Ohio we drove through Mansfield, where the film was shot and went to take a look at the reformatory, which is no longer in use. Their website is at
http://www.mrps.org/index2.html.
Re Berlin: I read on the RW forums today that medals are awarded only to people who finish in under 5 hours. I'm pretty sure that the next marathon I do will be quicker than that, but nevertheless I thought that attitude a bit mean-spirited. But I'd still like to do the event.
Seafront Plodder/Andy - best of luck in Dublin for Monday, mate, and sorry that I didn't make it with you. Watch out for that hill at Mile 19. Guinness, I'm told, is a rich source of carbohydrate so a few pints the night before would be my advice. Let us know how you got on, even if it's just a line or two.
Andy
