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@duncs - Brilliant! 8 mins is huge.
@Arducius - Nice one, good effort. Clearly some useful experience for London. Yes, your experiences of good and bad will be magnified at London, I feel. Best to just have as positive an attitude as possible, and - this is important - watch your ankles around discarded bottles and gels, all the time but particularly at/after water stations. And I might sound like an old man, but comfortable shoes is probably the most important thing on race day. That and a tried and tested anti-chafing strategy!
My cold had just about cleared up by yesterday's run, so I managed to keep up with my girlfriend this time. 16 miles, incl. 10 laps (10.6 miles) of Dulwich Park, targeting 6:05/m (=sub-2:40 target for her). All good, actual pace for 10.6 miles was 6:02/m, 6:33 average for the whole run. Taper time.