My last 'long' run before the London Marathon on Sunday. It also happens to be my first long run in quiet a while, and boy did I feel it!

All visions of finishing with a reasonable time have been obliterated, and now the goal is just to finish!

The only really positive part was when a 30mph speed radar flashed as I ran towards it, there wasn't a car in sight and even though I knew I was doing a fraction of that it still felt motivated by it...... That is until I got close to home and bumped into a friend.

I mentioned the speed check flash and he suggested it didn't signal because I was fast, but because I was fat and as heavy as a car.

I need to find new friends.