From a distance.
Someone said to me recently, you wait, once the 10 in 10 starts this year and a new bunch of people are doing it you will feel differently about it all.
I thought he was talking bollocks like normal but no, annoyingly he was right :-D
I didn't think I was going to follow this years group, I felt very ambivalent about the whole thing (I'll tell you a secret now, I have always felt guilty about it for not trying hard enough) but then seemingly couldn't help but to start reading the blogs.
I'm so glad I did. Finally I appreciate how hard it was and how much it takes out of you. I wasn't taking it easy, I was doing what I had to to get through. I was lucky in that I didn't get any major injuries like some people do, the ones that make you limp round in 8 hours but I got the cumulative niggles, the ones that made me stand at the top of the hill at mile 15/16? Thinking, this is a downhill, it really isn't fair that it's going to hurt so much going down it :-D I got the tiredness, the bone crushing weariness that had me in tears one morning in bed because I didn't think I could get out of it.
I also had 'life in the Brathay bubble' the support from your fellow runners and their families, the online support and the brilliant moments where your own supporters turn up and you relalise how lucky you are.
The realisation that it's not just yourself that you want to finish but everybody else who started the journey with you.
So yeah, thanks to the 2012 team, I I now appreciate it so much more:-) and I will be following til the end and taking as much pleasure in them finishing as I did when we did.
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