My Mum and Dad travelled to Birchington on Sea to see me set off at 7am for the Viking Trail marathon
The run was flat along the coast, hot and 6 mile loops
My dad and I at the finish
As you can probably see it was a hot day, when I arrived home I felt terrible and am sure I had heat stroke. I finished in just under 4 1/2 hours. The final lap of 6 miles I used as recovery I could have kept pushing but would have finished and felt terrible and probably not been able to walk and been in all sorts of pain. It was a mentally hard run. beautiful scenery but running out to a gate and turning round and running back 4 times was very tough, but I finished YEAH marathon 22, 4 more to do.
