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I finished the ride with Billy last year and could tell it meant the world to him but didn't know the full reasons why until now. It's perfectly understandable why he would want to do the ride again this time and also put the initial post up. As I said a few days back, blocking any organised ride on the route will have been discussed in any evaluation meetings that took place after last years marathon in order for the instructions to be in place for this one. Even with no public posting of our intentions, it is unlikely that we would be able to do the route on closed roads the morning of the marathon anyway.
Whoever emailed anonimously to essentially blame him for London Marathon Ltd. being quite well organised (surprise surprise), you are total fucking cowards who I hope realise exactly why what you have done is both short sighted and a disgrace. I'm kind of hoping the next emails you send are very sincere apologies and I'm sure Billy will forgive you as he is one of the most genuine and nicest people on here and a far better person than you appear to be currently.