Paris, marathon, bed REDUX

I KNEW it!!!!

My finishing time (and Angus’, for that matter) that I quoted in the previous entry, wasn’t actually my time.  Rather, the six-hour figure was one that started counting from the time when the first runner crossed the start line, NOT from when *I* crossed the start line.  Taking account of our belated starts, the final, actual, official figures for our marathons are:

Angus: 4 hours, 20 minutes, 18 seconds
Me: 5 hours, 46 minutes, 46 seconds

I bloody KNEW that the time on the clock as I crossed the finish line was the “gross” clock, as it were, and that it didn’t give my “net” time!  This means that, despite not having trained, and muscular problems, etc., it only took me 22 more minutes to finish this marathon than my previous marathon!