Included in Cathy's FLM race pack was Transport For London's handy (all things are relative) guide to which DLR and Tube stations you need to exit from in order to get to appropriate bits of the course. It tells you where the best vantage points are, and where to avoid.
That last section was the shortest. It just said, "London".
In fact, the entire first page was a list of the bus route numbers for those routes that wouldn't be going where they normally go on race day. There are three starts, and two different meeting places at the end, depending on which letter of the alphabet you've decided to meet at. We've chosen "X". Everybody else has probably chosen this as well.
Apparently, the Cutty Sark will have limited access on race weekend. Does this matter? It's not as if I was planning to sail it anywhere.
Our hotel is near to the start. The only logical way to get a bus from there to a DLR station (the nearest Tube station is nearly an hours walk away) would be to plough though the marathon route. So I think I'll have to take a train from Blackheath station. Although I'm not sure where to.
At least I know that our little group of supporters will be easy to spot, for since the get-together at Matlock at the start of the month I've been privvy to the cunning plan that a couple of them have cooked up. There'll be no missing us on race day. We might even get on the telly!
Meantime, all Cathy has to do is run on the nicely cordoned-off roads from the start to the finish, at which point there will even be some kindly folk to take her timing chip off her trainers for her.
Sometimes I think the runners have it easy...
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