London MoonWalk 2016

26.2 Miles.

I can hardly believe it.

I entered the MoonWalk months ago with four other people. One by one they dropped out. I only knew one of the others anyway, and she had to drop because she needed her gallbladder removed.

Initially, when Rachel dropped out, I also wanted to drop out. How was I going to be able to get through this with people I didn't know and had never even met? It seemed like a nightmare to me, and I considered not doing it many times.

In the end there was only two of us left to walk it, and we met at Kings Cross just a few hours before we were due to start.

We got along fine, which was a relief.

I found the begining of the event to be a bit of a mess; fifteen thousand people setting off in six start times. That meant that early on, it was very slow moving due to congestion.

And the early toilet stops were very long; the first one was about fifteen minutes, and our second stop tipped just over half an hour. I wish I had timed how long we were stationary, it must have been close to an hour and a half.

But that complaint aside, I muddled through. I had some low moments, and my lower back, my thighs and my feet ached.

But at 10.57AM, about 10 hours and 57 minutes after we started, we crossed the finish line. I was a little disapointed with the time, I had wanted to get under ten hours, and without the terrible waiting around at bottle-necks, we would have been.

But still, I am proud of myself. I am a marathon finisher.

I ache a bit now, and I am still incredibly tired, but I do feel that maybe I can do it again next year.