Good luck to all FLMers
26-04-2006, 10:23 PM,
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Good luck to all FLMers
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:
El Gordo

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
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Good luck to all FLMers - by Sweder - 19-04-2006, 10:02 AM
Good luck to all FLMers - by stillwaddler - 19-04-2006, 10:30 AM
Good luck to all FLMers - by MickCollins - 19-04-2006, 10:40 AM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Sweder - 19-04-2006, 12:57 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by suzieq - 19-04-2006, 02:04 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Nigel - 19-04-2006, 02:38 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Sweder - 19-04-2006, 03:00 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Antonio247 - 19-04-2006, 06:06 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by El Gordo - 19-04-2006, 11:06 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by El Gordo - 20-04-2006, 09:39 AM
Good luck to all FLMers - by El Gordo - 20-04-2006, 03:02 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Bierzo Baggie - 20-04-2006, 10:04 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Sweder - 21-04-2006, 10:26 AM
Good luck to all FLMers - by El Gordo - 21-04-2006, 10:35 AM
Good luck to all FLMers - by johnb - 21-04-2006, 01:29 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Nigel - 21-04-2006, 01:46 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by El Gordo - 21-04-2006, 01:58 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by El Gordo - 22-04-2006, 10:16 AM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Peterward3 - 22-04-2006, 08:26 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by MickCollins - 23-04-2006, 05:46 AM
Good luck to all FLMers - by El Gordo - 23-04-2006, 04:01 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Sweder - 23-04-2006, 05:27 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by MickCollins - 23-04-2006, 08:30 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by El Gordo - 23-04-2006, 08:58 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by ljs - 24-04-2006, 06:44 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by El Gordo - 24-04-2006, 10:37 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by stillwaddler - 25-04-2006, 09:21 AM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Antonio247 - 25-04-2006, 10:19 AM
Good luck to all FLMers - by ljs - 25-04-2006, 10:48 AM
Good luck to all FLMers - by marathondan - 25-04-2006, 10:57 AM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Sweder - 25-04-2006, 11:20 AM
Good luck to all FLMers - by El Gordo - 25-04-2006, 07:50 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by El Gordo - 25-04-2006, 07:52 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by suzieq - 26-04-2006, 02:35 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Nigel - 26-04-2006, 06:33 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by MickCollins - 26-04-2006, 08:19 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by MickCollins - 26-04-2006, 08:20 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by MickCollins - 26-04-2006, 08:20 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Bierzo Baggie - 26-04-2006, 09:24 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Nigel - 26-04-2006, 10:05 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by Peterward3 - 26-04-2006, 10:13 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by El Gordo - 26-04-2006, 10:23 PM
Good luck to all FLMers - by marathondan - 27-04-2006, 07:15 AM

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