Nerves alight as marathon arrives

The Loch Ness Marathon takes place this Sunday, 1 October. This is BBC Scotland news website editor Mark Coyle’s penultimate training diary.

It’s hard to believe but the big day is nearly upon me and about 2,000 other runners.

The start of last year’s Loch Ness Marathon

My Loch Ness Marathon training schedule began on Monday June 19 and that first three-mile run feels like it was a lifetime ago.

Since then there have been ups and downs, tears and pain, encouragement and humility. In other words, everything that other runners who’ve put themselves through the same experience said would happen to me.

The rest of this story is at BBC NEWS

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