Here We Go...

2 days 20 hours 52 minutes and 25 seconds remaining. According to the official Edinburgh Marathon website. Last day at work today, and I'm racking my brain to make sure everything is in place to take.

Realised I had made a bit of a faux pas yesterday when looking at the bumpf and the course route. For some reason, in my head, cities are like Bath, where I went to uni. Full of history and culture, and also small enough to walk across in an hour or so. However there are of course larger cities. Like London or Edinburgh, that you just cannot walk across in an hour. So when looking at the position of the start line (about 100 yards from the hotel) and the finish line (about 6-7 miles from the start) I realised that there may be a slight issue post race.

Now I have to hold my hands up and say that Teresa did bring to my attention weeks ago the availability of shuttle bus passes from the finish back to the start. And my reaction was something like '(laughing) oh no my dear friend, we don't want to waste money on something like that, we'll just walk as our cool down, it won't be far that'. FOOL! And I heartily apologise to Tree!

Now rather fortuitously, the bus tickets, sold on a first some first served basis, were still available yesterday and have now been purchased, downloaded and printed ready for the off. That would have been a very nasty shock after the elation of finishing! I'm sure in years gone by we would look back and laugh at my foolish naivety, but that's only if The others were still speaking to me :(

I did my last run yesterday evening. Just a short and steady 2.5miles to keep my legs ticking over. Mr Minstrel has helped me along on the carbo loading front today and despite the constant nervous buzz in my tummy I am finding I am able to eat quite well.

There really isn't much more we can do now except rest up and fuel up and trust in the preparation we have done. I had read on the official website that there would be some televised coverage, for those that have asked, but I can't find any trace of this in Sky TV listings. Pity.

I'm sure you will all be eagerly awaiting the next instalment, no turning back now!

2 days 20 hours 39 minutes and 59, 58, 57, 56....