Hope you're all well.

Just wanted to let you all know that I'm buzzing at the moment after completing the London Marathon last Sunday! Had my eye eviscerated in June, laced up my trainers 2 weeks later and started an adventure of a lifetime! Had no running experience prior to this. Loved every minute! I'm determined to live life to the full!
Prayers & thoughts for those affected in Boston.
Take care everyone.

Excellent, well done, I'm a runner too and take part in a fair few beasty runs but not sure I could do a full road marathon, takes some serious mental strength and stamina, Good on you.

I find running so theraputic, Nothing better than getting the ipod on and heading out for a run, I've been so pushed for time lately that I have been doing intervals on the treadmill and it just bores me to death!!

Whats the next run then, last few years we've headed down south to do the brookes hellrunner, Great fun but only 10 miles so may be a bit short for you

Well done I much admire all of you who run those distances. Best I ever managed was 10k races. Looked awesome on Tv.

lots of respect to all those people who can run 26 miles good on ya. I m more of a walker myself, If i tried london marathon id be dead by mile 5.

I have some friends who invited me a few times this month to go with them for marathon at the local stadium but it's much exciting to "run" on two wheels with engine .
When I want to do gym I make some hard physical work,my next plan in the free time is to turn a nearby derelict space into a football field for the litlle boys in the neighborhood who made the street in the front of my house into a football field and my windows gate

Thanks guys - but if I can do it, I'm sure you can. I literally started from scratch last July. The only thing I had run before that was a bath Just took a bit of a determination and perseverance. I run 26.2 miles but still get out of breath walking up the stairs, how does that work??? I have post-marathon blues now though

Congrats! I often tell people its not completing the marathon that is amazing, its completing the training! It takes a lot of dedication to log those miles in week after week.

I ran my last one about 7 months before my eye troubles began and keep toying with the idea of doing another, sort of a chance to reclaim myself. Its not my eye stopping me, its my willpower. Perhaps seeing your post will help give me the push I need to hang up a training schedule and get to it!

I run every year in a 15 mile trail run. GORGEOUS race, awesome people. They also have a 30 miler and a 50 miler and I am toying with the idea of making running the 50 miler the year I turn 50 one of my goals.

Thanks Chemgal. Wow how does anyone run 50 miles. I break out in a sweat just thinking about it! Good on you for contemplating that one thou, that sounds amazing.
I loved having the chance to prove to myself & everyone else around me that I wasn't ill anymore and that I could still achieve amazing things with monocular vision. I also quickly realised that when I was running I wasn't thinking about my eye troubles, and that was a welcome break.
Only downside is I think I am about to lose 3 toenails ha ha!!