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London Marathon 2024 sponsored run for St John UK

  • T minus 21 hours until start!

      21 April 2024

    Hi all

    It's just on 2pm London time on Saturday April 20th & I've spent the morning at the annual (40th) Marathon Medicine seminar - which was really informative, with great speakers! I joked with the organising Professor that I should claim the CPD hours & ask for conference leave & reimbursement 😉

    Getting more nervous but have decided there's little more I can do except ensure I know where I have to be at what time, and make sure I have the necessary stuff with me.

    I'm so very grateful to all of you who have supported my fundraising efforts in order to enable my participation & fulfill a bucket-list dream of running an iconic marathon.

    Next post hopefully will contain a finishers photo to share with you all (with me still upright 🤞 & mobile).

    London really does embrace this event - 50,000 entrants do create a little bit of chaos & disruption even in a major city (thinking traffic jams & Road closures on steroids!), but that doesn't seem to bother most people.

    Here we go........ 👍🏻

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  • 6 weeks to go!

      12 March 2024

    Hi to everyone - & thank you all so much for your generous support!

    Its now 6 weeks until the epic undertaking of a dream running event & I've been trying hard to put in the hard yards (well - miles, actually) to ensure I make it to the end of London 2024.

    Its been a little hard trying long training runs in the heat of summer - I learned on the last SJA marathon webinar that those in England were complaining about training in the cold (but at least they can add layers..... whereas when running in a singlet & tights there's very little you can take off when you overheat!). But the running coach that works with the SJA group was quick to support us all in our training endeavours. So a "shout out" to Nick from RunningWithUs who has passing on handy hints & training advice for us all.

    Making final bookings & organising some time touring the UK after the marathon is the current undertaking.

    Once again - thanks you all for your support, & please feel free to pass on the link to my Givealittle to others you think may been keen to support my efforts.

    Toni

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