 It went down through Khartoum, through the slums and the fields at the side of the Nile. All the folks in the brickworks would get to know me and they'd go, Hello! Crazy English! How are you? We were off and saying you must stop for tea sometime and just have a conversation. It's just a lovely way to get to meet local people. In case you want to take a camera and take pictures of them and show them the pictures I was delighted by that and it was just a very nice thing to do. I think about what I'm running. I usually think about what's ahead and what's coming up. Which way am I going next? How fast am I going? Am I on time? I should shelter behind somebody or try and catch somebody. Whether I'm going as hard as I possibly can. I very rarely daydream. Just focused on the race the whole time. After four years here in New York, my family went back to England. I'm rarely seen my daughters get their education in the English system. But I left you very much alone with a... I was looking to buy a rundown house just for something to do. I ended up in the running club and found that filled all my time. And the rewards were the social group that came with that. As years went by, more and more people would come along and say how did it inspire them to do something? Maybe they weren't doing as much as I was doing. But they started going to the gym. They started walking the stairs instead of using the elevator. They started walking from Penn Station instead of getting the subway that last part of the journey. And they were all trying to do something. Because I wasn't some guy in a magazine that... I was just a colleague of theirs. And I was just a normal guy who was never sick. Didn't seem to get tired. Didn't seem to get stressed out. Although I can assure you I have been in a house this coming Monday. And I'm doing it because several people from my club are going out. The one I'll just go with them and a bit of a road trip and a time out together. I just felt that anything was possible. And I guess it was about 70 miles into the race where I actually started to think that maybe this was all going to go reasonably well. But, you know, you just got to keep running.