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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phoenix" data-source="post: 1135589" data-attributes="member: 12578">If you want to do it then start running now but also start applying for the London Marathon now.(unless you know you can raise a couple of thousand pounds  and so get a charity place)I decided to do it almost straight after I was diagnosed; just to show that T1 wasn't going to stop me doing anything (I was already in my 50s) I ran my first marathon just over a year after diagnosis but it took me 6 years to get into the London Marathon, and I don't think they give automatic entry after 5 failures to get in any more . I'm glad I did it, just to say I that I did it and it was fun to have my grandchildren shouting 'come on granny. But  it actually wasn't my favourite marathon and was the last one I did.  (maybe because most of the running I do is by myself in the middle of no-where, crowds and filthy streets for 26 miles weren't so enjoyable .Probably it was  I'd done what I set out to do and then decided that I enjoyed shorter distances and walking even better )</blockquote>

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