This is Marathon 2014

Every year (as long as I'm awake and it isn't raining) I take myself to the end of my road one Sunday in late April to watch as the Marathon passes. It is usually later in April but every time Easter is late April the marathon jumps forward - 2011 and 2008 other recent examples.

This post is dedicated to my oldest god-daughter who is very excited by the marathon.

Empty road waiting for the runners

Don't cross now

Here come the marshalls

First runner to pass

Here comes the pack

Rhino spotted!

A wheelchair competitor, can't imagine the valley coming up

Oddest outfit of the day

There's a womble

Man and his tiger

Sweep up bus

That's the two mile marker up the road there

God-daughter wanted some video, I didn't take any sadly - but thanks to Google's Auot-Awesome function I've got some animated photos!

Prominent in the last shot is the orange vest on the chap running for the MS Society - I'm always very thankful to those orange vests (and the blue vests of the MS Trust) for putting themselves through 26.2 miles of running to raise money that will go to charities researching MS.

Ghosts of marathons past:
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013