Edinburgh Marathon - Pre Race Report

Edinburgh Marathon - Pre Race Report





So there it is my final entry into my training log. It has been a long hard struggle to get to this point. I have spent many hours on the road, many of them in pain, and many in pure ecstasy. There have been many highs and many lows, so much pain, sweat and tears. However, when I look back over the last nine months I know why I did it. It was for moments like this, when I am sitting here in pure ecstasy and anticipation of what Sunday morning will bring. I am sure there will be more sweat, more tears and my mind and body will pushed to breaking point, and beyond, but I am prepared, I am ready.


My journey has led me down roads and paths, from highs to lows, through rain and snow and I have come out the other end a better person than I ever was before. I am stronger, fitter and healthier and despite what people may say I am envied because I am doing something that most people would never dream of. It’s not just running twenty six miles, it’s the hundreds of miles that got me there. It was the training whilst friends were partying. It was the suffering whilst others were relaxing. However I would not change a thing and I would do it all again, only better.


Once this race is out the way it all starts again in preparation for New York in November, but that is another chapter in ‘My Journey’, for now I will leave you with this thought…….



“Nine months ago I set myself a challenge of running the New York Marathon. I have spent many hours on the road in training for this event. After several weeks of training I entered a local 10k race. When I crossed that finish line I felt the most unbelievable euphoria and I knew there and then that I was hooked. Within twelve weeks I had completed my first half marathon and nine months later I am in final stages of preparation for my first full marathon.


There have been highs and lows, injuries, holidays, illnesses that have all tried to prevent me from reaching my goal, but none have succeeded. I am ready for this and I will take this chance I have been given and I will show the world that I am strong , that I am a winner, that I will be victorious and that I will cross that finish line smiling.


I have reached a critical point in my journey. Get this wrong and it could scar me forever, get it right and it could be the start of something beautiful.


I am under no illusion that this is without doubt the greatest challenge of my life so far. However, what is the point in having goals if they are easy? What is the point of having a goal that when if you reach it you wonder why you feel no different? What is the point of having a goal that brings you no fulfillment? What is the point?


It is not crossing the finish line that changes you or makes you a better person, it is the person you become when you cross that finish line, and I will cross that finish line….


The decision has already been made!!”




“There is no I in team, however, there is and I in win... And I will WIN!”