WOW! What a weekend...

It's a long one.. just warning you!!

For those that know me personally, you will have probably known that I went down to London for the weekend. London is my absolute favourite place in the whole entire world, it just holds so many memories for me that I hold so close and I will treasure forever. And this weekend, a new memory was made...

The reason I went down to London was the marathon. I myself did not run the grueling 26.2 miles (I am not that stupid) but I knew a lot of people that were - my boyfriend (Rob), Dad, cousin (Lucy) and various people I know from a local running club - the mighty Wesham Road Runners!

I firstly want to say a massive massive well done to everyone who took part, it really is something to be proud of whether you achieved the time you wanted or not. How many people can say that they have run the London Marathon?! Your efforts amaze me every time I think about it and it really is something wonderful to be able to say you have done. And especially those who run for charity (Lucy, I'm looking at you here) I mean just wow! Doing it for such a good cause is so phenomenal, knowing that running the marathon will help so many people in the future - I salute you.

Rob in top picture, dad in bottom picture

Completely the 26.2 miles in London with a fantastic crowd and atmosphere is going to be something you never forget. However, this time round even more so for Rob. Now yes, Rob is a blooming quick runner and he achieved an astonishingly good time and gained a massive personal best. But somehow I don't think that is the memory that will stay with him this year round - instead, crossing the line hand in hand with the one and only... *drum roll * PAULA BLOOMIN RADCLIFFE! I mean what the heck?!?! How did that even happen?! Getting to run alongside the female world record holder and one of the most inspirational runners even!

Shout out to the guy running as an ostrich - you amused me

When Rob was about 19 and a half miles around the course, he heard that Paula had just passed 20 miles over the speaker system and then made the effort to catch up to her and run with her for a bit. All week there had been talk of the marathon and telling those who were running to finish 'hand in hand' with those you're running with - just like the first two winners of the London Marathon did. Rob saw this as an opportunity to ask Paula if she wanted to finish hand in hand with him when they were near the end, and she said yes (much to Rob's disbelief)! And they continued to run down the final stretch holding hands with each other and finishing the marathon together in 2 hours 36 minutes! PROUD GIRLFRIEND RIGHT HERE!

At this moment, I wasn't at the finish line as I was still watching other runners at around the 14 mile mark and all of a sudden my phone was going crazy with friends texting me/tweeting me that Rob had finished holding hands with Paula, and to be honest I didn't believe any of them at first. Just thinking they just meant they had finished at the same time. And then people started taking pictures of the TV screens and sending them to me and I was in shock. This is like the stuff of dreams, I'm still not over it to be honest.

The next few days were crazy crazy for Rob, the media went crazy, interview after interview and even appearing on TV. People were going crazy about it and I couldn't be prouder of my wonderful man.

This is going to go down in history and is something to tell the kids and the grandkids! Wow!

My Champion 

Who knows... maybe one day I will be stupid enough to run it myself... just maybe!

Adios xx