I Got A Guinness World Record | TCS London Marathon 2025 | My Experience of the Worlds biggest race!

Описание: What's it like to run the TCS London Marathon 2025 on behalf of @teenagecancertrust ? 26.2 miles in 26 minutes montage.

Wow what an experience! 🤩 The @londonmarathon Marathon is done, my first of 3 fundraising for @teenage_cancer with Milton Keynes coming up next weekend and Leeds the weekend after. And also my first ever marathon race, going from not running in February to running what is now crowned the world’s biggest marathon, with 57,449 starters and 56,640 finishers according to the Guinness World Records. While I feel really positive, happy and excited to have completed this, my body is making me extremely aware of its aching parts, mainly being sore feet, back ache, tight hamstrings and sun burn.

If you are wondering what it is like? Well, getting off the packed train at Blackheath was similar to any other journey to or around London. Though joining the main road to see the sea of people walking up to the heath, then joining the 10’s of thousands of people waiting was a bit intimidating. It was a calm almost subdued atmosphere, each person going through their own mental and physical preparations, which became sheer excitement as their wave (and mine) were called up to the start.

The music was blaring and commentator doing their motivational moment, until we’re given the instruction to start, with 42.2km/26.2 miles ahead.

The runners are awesome 🤩 each running for their own reason and with their own challenges. Whether decked out in an eye catching costume or the colours of a charity they are running for (just like me) or in their own running gear, many sporting the colours of this years London Marathon kit. 🎽👟

So how did I manage it? For me, I ran my plan. I felt amazing for the first 24km/15 miles hitting my groove of 6’30”/km (and sometimes faster 😳) enjoying conversations with runners on the way and grabbing a few selfies plus video snips

everyone who supported me to get here and the electric crowd cheering all the runners on with whistles, shout outs, steel drum, drumming bands, brass bands, choirs, dj’s, banners, smiles and high fives ✋ plus so much more was inspiring in itself.

This propelled me to a personal best of completing in 5 hours 11 minutes and 39 seconds with a celebratory leap over the finish line 🏅

When the certificate from the Guinness World Records people arrived today for my participation in the largest number of finishers in a marathon with 56,640 out of 57,449 starters in the TCS London Marathon my friends asked me to put a post up about it they could share.

I wasn't sure what to put because I chose to run the marathon to support Teenage Cancer Trust, and was there when the record attempt was made.

Everything else is down to the choices I made before and continue to make to live a better life.

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Join me on my next big adventure — climbing Mount Kilimanjaro this September! 🌍⛰️

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