So, after a day of website problems I’m finally entered in the ballot for the 2010 London Marathon, along with 119,000 other hopefuls who all want to get their hands on one of the 30-odd thousand ballot places.

My rough maths tells me that I’ve got about a 1 in 4 chance of getting a place in the 2010 event. I can live with that.

It was about March last year that I started running (making this my most successful hobby to date in terms of sticking with it – but that’s a subject for another blog). By the time last year’s London Marathon came round I was up to running 10 minutes non-stop. I remember getting on the train after work and sitting across from two women who had been to collect their race number’s for the London Marathon that was due to take place that weekend.

Had I applied to run after being inspired by those two women and been sucessful, I probably would have had the worst Sunday of my life last weekend as I struggled round the course. Even with a year’s running under my belt and six months to train for the marathon, I know I wouldn’t have been ready.

I know that among the 120,000 people that will enter the ballot for 2010 this week, there’ll be quite a big number who have done little to no running. I just hope that they know what they’re letting themselves in for and that they’re less lazy than me, because come October there will be a lot of people who will be very disappointed.