The results are in...

The poll -

Well I bet Lorraine Keane, who had a time of 1:23:14
And I bet Aisling O'Loughlin, who got it in 1:20 she tells me
And I'm confused about Glenda. She told me she walked it but then I searched for her name through the results and it says that she got a time of 1:02...so is there another Glenda Gilson in Ireland??? Perhaps.
Sinead Kissane got it in 58 minutes, and Siobhan in 59 - fair play to both of them! Under the hour...my initial target. Oh well!

So there you go. I came in two thousanth, four hundred, and eighty second place out of 40,374 entrants. So that puts me in what...the top 6% I reckon. Not too bad for a first-timer.

My competitor Christine wasn't listed.

I managed to finish it

The state of me.


Me and my sister Lorraine...who found me sitting down with three bottles of water within a few minutes of finishing the race.


Here's me and the medal. Note the two bottles of water at hand - the race was a killer. For some reason they had no water until the 7k mark. It was a rather uncomfortable run...the heat made me feel pretty ill. I was just glad to finish it in the end - I think I did it in a time of around an hour seven or eight minutes. I think it was around 2 minutes or 3 minutes in before I got to the start line and then I crossed at around 1:09:46 or something like that.

The last supper

I am so freaking nervous. Jittery. Gahhhhhh! And the bloody weather outside ain't helping matters. Nerves. Nerves. Nerves.

I'm not wearing what I was going to wear - jogging pants...but have opted for shorts instead. Shorts which I haven't trained in - Gah! It's just too hot to wear jogging pants I think. Or maybe I should wear them. I just DON'T KNOW! I ran for 10 minutes in them and they seem okayish.

What is really uncomfortable is the suncream on me. I hate that oily feeling - and especially when I'll be inevitably hot and sweaty when I run. I do smell like a coconut though.

Above is my breakfast - three weetabix. Stick to what you know. Gonna head off into town for the group photo in about 20 minutes. I might do a google search now for immediate nerves relief.

My knee also is not fully better. I've a feeling I may not be able to walk for a week after this race. Best of luck to Fla in the 40k run in Cork. He's also shitting a brick about the weather.