‘I finished behind a man in a cow costume’
Different colour bib-numbers differentiated between those aiming to finish within three hours, in less than four hours and the majority of us 10,600 entrants who would have settled for crawling along Merrion Square on all fours.
Not that I can speak for runners whose legs clocked up a serious mileage in preparation, but there is no amount of training that can prepare a person for their first lash at this distance.
