It's done. Thank you everyone for your support

Couldn't have asked for a better day!

Slickly organised, tremendous support, inspiring surroundings and thoroughly exhausting, but in a good way. The London Marathon has to be one of the world's most spectacular events and I'm thrilled to have taken part in it.

I made it round the course in 3:51.28, just inside my predicted time of 3:53.

I have managed to raise in excess of £1750 for CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA (money is still coming in, so total not confirmed yet). The figure has way exceeded my expectations and will be a tremendous help to the continuation of the charity's fantastic work and means a great deal to our family, so thanks to everyone for your generosity.

You'll be glad to hear I'm injury free, but those of you who've run long distances in the past will appreciate that doesn't mean I'm exactly walking right and suffering severely from a fear of staircases (something Ralph certainly doesn't seem to have!). So it's feet up for now and back to work tomorrow.