Good luck to all FLMers

[El Gordo]

Mick, that is a GREAT race report. Thank you.

Too many things to want to comment on at the moment, but I feel empathy for how you felt at the end. Well, when I did my first marathon, also London, I did feel much more emotional than you. Like many others, I cried as I shuffled up the Mall. However this year, at Zurich, I felt The Void rather than the cornucopia of delight that I wanted and expected as my reward for getting round in my target time. There was quite a sense of anti-climax, despite desperately wanting to be able to report something different.

But anyway, you're now a marathoner, and be proud. Your instincts (like mine) might want to shuffle off such embarrassing conceits, but one day soon, perhaps when you're on your own with a glass or two of decent wine inside you, it will thump you like a brick between the eyes. There's nothing quite like a marathon to make you feel simultaneously like a helpless baby and a total god.

I hope you'll stick around with us while you slowly start your assault on some new Everest.

------

And I'm still pissed off that you beat my Zurich time by 1 minute.....

:mad: