And now, the end is near....

                    Time to dust off my chicken suit and get out there!

I just want to take the opportunity to say a huge and overwhelmingly massive 'thank you' to everybody who has supported me over the past year, since I started on this quest to run the London Marathon - not that I've done it yet!
It's Friday evening and for the past six days I've been experiencing a welter of different emotions but mainly focussing on sick, nervous tension. I'm told not dissimilar to PMT, which I'm sure must mean Pre Marathon Tension.
This is my last blog entry before the event on Sunday, from which point onwards my life will be split between the time on earth before I did the marathon, and the rest of my life which I will be able to live with a slightly smug sense of satisfaction as somebody who ran the London Marathon, and survived. Hopefully.
Because even if I do get fat again and am forced to spend my life spalshing about in a large birthing pool in the middle of the lounge because no other furniture can support my massive frame, I will still be able to look back on this point and feel I did achieve something. And if nothing else, even if I don't succeed on Super Sunday, I have run 22 miles in training, and that kicks ass.
Seem to be rambling nonsense, but I think it's probably indicative of my nervous state, so it's probably best to keep this short.
I do though want to make it known that I couldn't have come this far without the encouragement and support of some amazing people in my life, some people who I've only recently met and others who have been there all along like my family. And of course a very understanding and supportive girlfriend, without whose strength and inspiration I would have given up long ago, and for being somebody who hasn't ever been bothered about what weight I am, but has always understood that it is something I need to do for myself.
This whole trip has been just amazing from the start because it has been such a massive goal, but has given me the kind of focus and determination that I never knew I had. And in turn that has given me a lot more motivation in work and everywhere else in my life. Nothing fazes me now like it used to, no amount of work is too much now after spending the bleakest winter I've known running up and down hills in the middle of Bristol, I can take on most things I think. I never realised that would happen.
Enough of this introspection, I've got a race to run dammit!
So here I go, thanks for the support, and the sponsorship of course, I aim to do you all proud.