Well … I made it across the finish line in one piece!  Hooray!

There was a brilliant atmosphere and, it turns out, 10 km is not half as far as you think

The men’s winner (Cirus N’deraba) finished in just over thirty minutes – amazing!

My time reflected my more sedate pace (1 hour 15 minutes).  However, I am pleased with that as it was my first 10k.  My knee, which has given me so much gyp in the past weeks, was hurting at the start of the course but miraculously got better about 1km in.  I ached a bit the next day, though.

Here are some pics that I took en route …

This is on the way to the start at Picadilly. It took an hour to get there from Waterloo Place (where the baggage drop-off was) because of the large number of people taking part – 27,000, apparently.

It was very exciting getting to the first distance marker …

The route went past Trafalgar Square and Nelson’s Column …

… and along the Embankment.

Towards the end of the course, we went across Westminster Bride and past the London Eye.

Then we ran past parliament and Big Ben.

And finally reached the finishing line!