Flora London marathon 2007 - the final two days

I had decided to start a couple of London marathon traditions (I know that doing something two years in a row is not a tradition worth mentioning, but you have to start somewere, right?):

1. Visit the Wildlife photographer of the year exhibition at the Natural History Museum
2. Buy a London marathon mug at the marathon expo
3. Join Uli and the other runners in our group for a last training run on Saturday morning.
4. Finish the London marathon (obviously)
5. Have my picture taken afterwards wearing my Brittlestar t-shirt and my medal

Traditions 1 to 3 are easy to achive, but 4 and subsequently 5 are a challenge.

So, easy ones first and Friday morning I visit the wildlife photography exhibition at the Natural History Museum:

The exhibition was again fascinating and I would have loved to take home all of the pictures to put them on my wall. If you happen to be in London in April, go and see it. It's worth it.

Next up, the London marathon expo and that mug. More important than the mug is of course to pick up the runners number and the Champion chip used to take the time.


I spent way too much money at the expo. In addition to the mug I bought some clothes and energy bars and gels for the race. I had pasta, order the newspaper with the results (they send it to each runners home address) and got red laces.

Then it's Saturday morning and we go on our final run before the race. It has no training effect, it's simply to calm the nerves and do some sightseeing.

This is where it will all end the next day:

Saturday was a lovely, warm and sunny day. So in the afternoon I went to Hyde Park armed with a book to have a nap in the sun and watch the swans: