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27 October 2006 - 18 hours to go

Well, the ordeal is almost over and hopefully in 24 hours the whole marathon malarkey will be finished.

The swollen ankle has gone down and it is starting to look more like the other one. It seems that the swelling may have been an allergic reaction rather than a symptom of injury. Which is great of course, but did mean that I had to start psyching myself up again on Wednesday when it began to look possible that I was going to be able to run after all.

The weather looks like light rain, but even better is the very low wind speed expected - and even then the wind is from the west which means that it will be behind us running the final leg along the coast.

I guess I ought to have a target time. Given the climb, and the fact that it's my first marathon, perhaps it is Ok to aim for 10 minute miles. That would give a finish time of 4:22, but who know how it will feel tomorrow morning after the first 15 miles..