Dear London Marathon crowd member
I wanted to say a huge thank you for your support yesterday. Once again, you turned a great event into a spectacular one. Thank you for waving flags, making banners and shouting out my name. Boy does it help! Thank you for hanging out of windows and lining every last scrap of pavement. Thank you to the younger crowd members competing with their friends to give me a high five. Thank you for taking the trouble to try and give me sweets, chocolates and oranges (and I am sorry I couldn’t eat them all). Thank you for standing in the heat for so long and hanging on to the bitter end to cheer on those who would have stopped if you had not been there. Thank you for going to your local pub with your mates to watch the race and have a pint at 10.00am, just because you can. Thank you for having parties on the side of the street or on your balcony, especially the group at mile 21 playing AC/DC’s ‘Highway to Hell’. Genuis.
For all this and more, I thank you. I really couldn’t have done it and wouldn’t want to have done it without you.
And if for some reason I can’t run next year I have a suggestion. Maybe you could take my place? And then I will come and cheer for you.
Deal?
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