Run with Champions

All you have to do is enter the world's most unique athletic event - the Marathon. It's the only sporting occasion where world champions compete in the same race as mere mortals - fun runners and fancy-dress entrants included. Running with world champions is not its only attraction however, most people run it because it's very, very, very (add as many as you like) hard!

That's the great thing about us humans, invent a race that is indescribably difficult, and you get thousands upon thousands of people queuing up to prove they can do it :O) 

We are the planets only animal which would over-ride the body's self-preservation instincts, and run 26.2 miles in a bio-mechanical mechanism that has only been designed to run a maximum of 20 miles. The body cannot carry enough fuel to run much further than this, which is why you can hit the dreaded 'wall'.

Whether you hit the wall or not, during the last 10k of a marathon you will experience a level of exhaustion that simply cannot be described or appreciated, you have to run it and experience it! (I'm sure you can't wait now.) :O) 

This Sunday, 26th April, over 30,000 runners will enjoy the marathon experience in London, raising millions of pounds for charity. I shall be cheering them on from the comfort of my sofa, and looking out for 10 members of my running club Spa Striders, who are all heroes for even attempting this distance.

John McNally