the Leicester marathon...

Before you think to yourself "cor, what's this rubbish - Nina's doing exercise??" - no, it wasn't me!! A group of us took the train to Leicester on sunday to support a friend, Damien (of monopoly challenge fame), who was running his first marathon. All 26 miles (42kms) of it. Blimey, all that running!

Essentially we were his cheer squad and all wore matching t-shirts, so that if we stood in a row it would spell Go Damo! They were hand painted, and awesome! We arrived at about 10.30, and immediately went and had breakfast. So while Damo had been slogging it out for 2 hours, Team Damo tucked into pancakes and full English breakfasts!

About half an hour before he was due to cross the line, we headed for the finish line and waited eagerly in formation. We cheered all the other runners (some looking pleased, others looking perplexed at what they thought was 'godam' spelt on our shirts). Right on time Damo appeared on the hill - red t-shirt, blue shorts - and he apparently heard our cheering from 300m away! Later he said it was the cheering that got him over the line - after running for more than 4 hours all he wanted to do was stop and lay down. He did really well - I simply can't imagine running that far, I don't even run for the bus.

The photo's are of us after the race....

We didn't see much of Leicester - we missed seeing the Space Centre (yes they have one!), the cathedral, and markets. And we didn't eat any of their famous Red Leicester cheese.

It had been a really good week - we went and saw the stage production of Chicago on tuesday, with Kelly Osbourne in it. She can sing, suprisingly, but acting isn't her strong suit. We had gone out for Indian beforehand, which was amazing - the naan bread was at least 50cm long!