 in the middle of Horsesguard Parade. So we are in Horsesguard Parade at the end of the London Marathon 2022 I hope that the the bandwidth is all right because there are thousands and thousands of people here and they will all be trying to use their phones to speak to their relatives and friends to try and meet here in Horsesguard Parade So I finished the London Marathon 2022 in three hours 23 minutes and around about 20 seconds So one minute faster than last week in Berlin. So last week was 3, 24, 19 So we've just done about a minute quicker in London. Now truth be told I was hoping for 315 that's the pace that I started out at Excuse me, let me just drop my bag so it's not so heavy on my shoulder so I can hold the phone Yeah, so I was hoping for 315 But given the everything that I've done in the past three months So we started in July with the Lakeland 100 miler in the Lake District That was hard work 33 hours or so to do that 100 and then we continued. Oh, we also did of course before that we did Guernsey Ultra in May and before that we did the Trans Gran Canaria 125k in Gran Canaria But then after Lakeland Victoria and I did UTS as well. No, hang on a minute. Was that before Lakeland? That was before Lakeland as well so we did Trans Gran Canaria Guernsey Ultra UTS Snowdonia 50k Lakeland 100 Hello, buddy Um, what did we do after Lakeland 100 TDS in Chamonix? Um after TDS in Chamonix we did the Ben Nevis Ultra And then after Ben Nevis we did the Berlin marathon last week So the past three weeks it's been Ben Nevis Berlin and London So my legs honestly really are completely done in And last week I I was a bit stupid and I did start ridiculously fast far far far too fast For what I really knew I should go um So I wanted to try and get three hours after 5k if you've seen my previous video, you know There was no way I was going to get 5k Sorry, uh three hours and after 5k I really knew that but by then the damage was done And it was a gradual slow down all the way to the end of that marathon Today has been a far more solid Oh, sorry, uh a far more solid marathon attempt Even though I didn't get my goal and even though I slowed down towards the end Um, I have Run a lot more solid today So my splits were a lot more even for most of the way and when I did start to slow down I slowed down a lot less than I did in Berlin at least I think I did And I've come in one minute quicker and the difficulty about today Was that um early on certainly um because I started in such a far back wave Um, I was dodging and weaving between runners for the first 10 miles And that was really tough Um, thank you by the way everyone who's commenting Uh, if you're commenting down below, thank you very much much appreciated Uh I really appreciate you watching really appreciate you supporting the channel If you do uh want to subscribe and you haven't please please do that And um, if you want to support the channel, uh, you can become a member just if you're watching on your computer I just click the join button and there's various uh levels of membership that you can join So if you want to support the channel, uh, a little more than just subscribing Then uh, you can become a member So this is this is horse guards parade So this is where at the end of the london marathon you you, um, collect your goody baggy collect your medal I'll show you the medal in a sec And then there's lots of um letters Where you can meet your relatives so you can arrange to if your surname like mine is cousins I thank you Lee Palmer says well done Stephen um If uh, yeah, if you uh, if your name is cousins you could say we'll meet at letter c For example, or if you're in the Worthing Harriers, which I am you could either meet at letter w or letter h And I think we're meeting at letter h, which is just over there in a minute. So that's where I'm going to go in a second All right, so I've got two medals today So that's the that's the london marathon medal for this year Very nice If you're just joining by the way, I finished in three hours 23 a minute faster than last week in berlin I was going for three uh 15 for a good for age time But didn't quite get that legs started to tighten up. Um, as you might expect with all the runs I've done Recently Jackie Ramos says congratulations. The sun is out. Yeah It's amazing because last night the weather said it was going to pour with rain All all race and it didn't and the crowds This london were bigger and more enthusiastic than I think I've ever seen Incredible crowd support and especially given that I did berlin last week berlin is nowhere near Nowhere near the level of crowd support that you get here in the uk in london And I think yeah having never done it. I don't know about new york But they do say that new york Is the only one that can rival the uk uh neil Neal cabin from australia. He says surprise to see you back up today Yeah, well, I thought you know given that I had qualified for london And given that I was lucky enough to get in on the baller in berlin I thought I had better make an effort to do both When you're training for 100 mile races and ultras and mountain runs You cannot train for a fast marathon and that has been proven By my two efforts at the two fast Road marathons that I've done these past two weeks london and berlin Not anywhere near my pb time so 25 26 minutes away from my pb time But still a relatively solid effort today. I would say Right, I think it's time for me to head over to To meet my gang the harriers Thank you very much everybody for watching Just a little summary there of my london marathon effort. Yeah. Oh, yes. Sorry the other merit the other medal I got And was the abbot age group medal now that doesn't mean I've won my age group at all It just means that anyone who entered or qualified to enter the abbot age group championships Gets an age group medal at the end. I don't for one second Think I've been placed in my age category, which is 50 to 55 Um, I think I've just got a medal for taking part But it's nice to have two medals in a race. So there's there's the london. That's the important one there So, uh, thank you very much for watching everyone. I am going to go chill out relax and uh look out for Videos on the way are the um the bennevis ultra video. That's the next one to be done The london marathon video this one, which I will try and get done as well Um, we I did record video on the on the way round And we I've still got to edit victoria's uh guernsey ultra as well. So there are two or three videos Still to edit on the channel. So look out for them And if you haven't subscribed already, please do. Thank you very much for watching. Take care. We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye Martin scofield says he can't hear me Martin, uh, that's because I've just finished broadcasting. I was just about to turn off the stream If you want to know martin, I finished in three hours 23 minutes For your information I'm just heading to the letter h to meet my harrier's running club, uh, buddies So, uh, thank you very much again for watching