John left home at 4am on January 13th in order to start walking the marathon by 4.30am. He walked with his friend Hugh and was very happy to finish in a time of 6hrs10mins a 20min improvement on last year's time. The event here is huge - the streets are lined with cheering people, banners, flags, live bands and lots of music and the route goes right past our apartments so we have a bird's eye view of all the activity. It was a great day and was followed up a week later by a celebratory breakfast at Elaine's home - one of the 'Houston Fit Walker Group' organisers and it was wonderful to be surrounded by so many positive achievers - very motivating. John carried the Aussie flag on his back and some people actually recognised it! This was a very important walk for John as he only has 2 months before taking on the 100kms in Taupo NZ in April.
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