The Pace of a Marathon

It was a lot slower than I expected it to be. Almost to the point where it sounds ridiculous, I've almost never run that slow. But it's 26 miles, I didn't want to push myself and collapse after halfway. The longest I've ever ran has been 13 miles, which is half a marathon. That was like eight years ago, nine years ago when I did the Great North running Newcastle. And I've not ran that far ever since. It's funny, there's a picture in the Facebook group from Owen Gunn who took a picture of you running and he put the big man at London Fire Brigade Water Station at mile 20. So that's arguably one of the biggest