Would you describe the London Marathon as a 'fun run'?

A simple yes or no is required to make my point. If you felt so moved to do so I would really appreciate if you could leave a comment and let me know, really, if, say, you were chatting to someone, a work colleague, someone in the queue at the post office or perhaps your sister, you would describe the London Marathon as a 'fun run' - I'm intrigued, that's all! 

Anyway, moving on. Following 'that' run last week, we did a seven mile run on Tuesday and a six miler on Thursday. 

This morning Amy and I  joined Kevin, our Hospice coach, his friend Andy, Amanda (her husband Mervin joined us en route), John and Paul at the Tesco store in Brightlingsea. The plan was to run to the Tesco at Great Bentley, then through Frating, and Elmstead Market to the Tesco at Hythe and onto (via somewhere) to the Tesco at Greenstead. The entire distance was about 20 miles which was a little long for Amy and I. In our training plan we are due to run an 18 miler on Friday so we didn't want to overdue it today. So we stuck with 10 miles and ran with the group to Frating. It was really windy, AGAIN but I was much more sensible and did not freeze. It was really nice to run with the group and hear various valuable advice regarding sports gels, the marathon day etc. Kevin talked us through the final two weeks of preparation for the marathon (only 6 weeks away!!) that would include winding down the mileage. It really feels imminent now.  

I do still have quite a cough and have taken advice from my running partner to not run now until Wednesday - this is tough but I don't want the cough to get worst or go to my chest and put the training out for longer. It's just too close to the big day for any serious illness. I'm drinking water like there's no tomorrow.

Nine months training, roughly 144 runs, culminating with a 26 mile run on April 13th - I wouldn't describe that as a fun run .... YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!