This year, it's 2,500 years ago that the first marathon was finished in Athens with the words "Rejoice, we have won!" - and then the messanger collapsed. In Brighton, my friends Polly and Gemma came through the finishing line of the Brighton Marathon looking perfectly fit (although they didn't allow me to publish their pictures on the Internet). They did the 26 miles in less than four hours. Congratulations to them both. I'm very much impressed by your performance!
In Britain, charity is very common. So many runners ran for a good cause. And they dressed up to be a perfect eye catcher. Some just wore t-shirts with the respective NGO printed on them, some even wore costumes - dressed up as Spongebob, a penguin, a man sitting on a rocking horse, or even as a toilet (see below; these runners ran for Wateraid, an NGO that works in 26 countries providing water, sanitation and hygiene education to some of the world's poorest people). Gemma ran for her new project, in which she directs the open-air play Lovers Walk at the Brighton Fringe Festival in May.
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