I DID IT!!!  Not with much style and not with a good time, but I did run the London Marathon in 5 hrs 31 minutes!! What a long way and what an incredibly hot day!  It was an incredible experience and one I wouldn't have missed for anything. The crowds were fabulous, spraying us with water pistols and sprinklers and feeding us jelly babies when we looked about to drop. An enormous thank you to Max who staggered round manically busy tube stations with 2 hot crotchety kids to see me a couple of the times on the route and spur me on enormously. Seeing them for the last time at 25 miles was an incredible feeling and Skye hopped over the barrier and ran 50 metres with her exhausted mum - not something I will never forget! Thank you to a lovely lady called Michelle who ran a lot of the way with me and kept me laughing and fed me energy bars when she thought I needed a boost.

And thank you to you, my family, friends and colleagues, who believed I could rise to the challenge and bouyed me up with such support and good wishes on the day. I have raised £1600 in total for seriously ill kids and I am so pleased. Thank you to everyone, there are a few people who still need to send their monies through so if you could do it in the next week or so that would be fab, either on-line, or cheques to me at home.

On April 22 I thought never again, but a couple of weeks later, you never know! I really would like to beat that 5 hr mark!!

Much love and thanks

Jenxx