IM IN !!!
The london Marathon 2011.
Im absolutely delighted to be as well, I wasnt at first though, I didnt open it for a couple of hours thought it was running mag, come a bit early, so it lay on the sofa till lunchtime, when I opened it I thought oh it is the VLM mag, and read the letter, again and again and again, paced up and down the living room, read it again, thought oh bugger be careful what you wish for. Then phoned my friend and told her,
so as irony will have it, and with my head still buzzing, I went to my hospital appointment for the results of ankle scan, it seems that I have some cartilage movement in my ankle joint, an operation is an option, but if I can tolerate the pain, then carry on, this sounded good, so I thought Id tell the surgeon what had popped through the letter box earlier, and that Id just done the GNR and was it possible that I could do double the distance next April. Do you remember that withering look as child you got from your teacher when you knew you said or done something wrong, that over the glasses dropped chin look, yep well thats I got, with the added comment ,this is not good.
so Im in the position of having a place, but I may not be able to use, however I have decided to give it a careful go, and see how the training goes, and just hope that with a little weight of, some serious core strength work, a few carefully chosen races , a couple of long runs, and I may just may, and I do reiterate the may just get to the start line in reasonable shape. If not then I can defer get the op and maybe have another crack at it.
So here goes. The up side is that another ERR member has also got in Dawn, and we may be able to do some training together, Im delighted for her, we are now VLM training buddies, whoop! whoop! as Lisa would say, Wish me luck.
