I had wondered where you had got to mate. I stopped hearing this little whirring sound of you trying to charge up your headtorch. Lap 4 convinced me that 6 laps was a distant memory. That lap it was hard to keep pace and I was significantly over my target of doing a lap every hour. Lap 5 was all down to guts and I toughed it out to a 5:19 finish and 6th place. Both of which I'm really happy with. Real shame you didn't finish the full distance but even so 26.2 mile in those conditions is still commendable. Really good to meet you at last mate also. The worse part for me was after the finish having to get all my stuff from my car. On the walk from the pub over the road to my car and back again I suddenly started getting hypothermic and very quickly had to get myself in front of the fire and drinking a cup of tea that Mike supplied me with. (He's great by the way. Top man)

I eventually got home and into bed at 2:30am. I had stopped at Thurrock services to have a shower and although basic the facilities there were adequate. Had I gone for the 6th lap I down think I would have got home until 4am. My legs felt ok afterwards though. The only really painful bit was the top of my left leg where it joins the hip. That feels ok today though. In the morning I felt pretty good. I only had about 4 hours sleep but to be honest I was aching a fair bit and couldn't have laid in bed any longer. (Last night was another matter, I could have slept for England but had to get up and go to work) On Sunday morning I went swimming with the kids and then slept the afternoon at a play area with them, so I didn't exactly get a relaxing day but it was good to be active. Today I've had to work from home (due to family illness) and I wont do anything other than some stretching. Tomorrow I'm going to swim for 45 mins before work with a view to running by the end of the week.