Call me a TOMboy (finish line) Gratefully I collected my medal; I hadn’t realized (though I should have) that like Comrades, Two Oceans awards several distinct finisher medals based on performance, the details of which can be found on a cryptic page separate from the race website’s “P...
The marathon itself mattered very little in the grand scheme of things, which was ideal for another, more ignominious reason: London was the first marathon I’d entered that I didn’t want to run. I’d chosen each of my first 47 marathons specifically because I’d wanted to run them—af...