New York Marathon 2011...

This morning we walked down to Bedford Avenue to cheer on the amazing people running the New York marathon...

The atmosphere was incredible, it was a bit overwhelming really, as we walked up to Bedford we could hear the MC rapping and calling out people's names over the music, and then The Black Eyed Peas 'I Gotta Feeling' starting playing and everyone was dancing and cheering and the runners were all cheering too...

People were standing on the side lines giving all the runners high fives, people were cheering and whooping, we were clapping and cheering everyone along as they worked their way through Brooklyn.

We'd been watching the professionals running on telly earlier in the morning and it was amazing to see how fast they were going and the concentration on their faces, but seeing the 'normal' people running, the people who don't do marathons for a living, the people who are running for a cause, running to raise money for something they believe in, seeing them was far more exilerating to watch.

There were all sorts of people, all shapes and sizes, all ages, all nationalities, here's some of the ones that stood out while we clapped and cheered...

It felt like there were far more people cheering on the runners this year than a couple of years ago, it's a great spot to watch too, I think it's around the half way mark(ish) and the Brooklyn rappers made it feel like a big party.

I have an ENORMOUS amount of respect for people who run marathons, and watching them all made me feel incredibly proud of Mr. Thomas Langridge for running the Great North Run... who knows perhaps we'll be cheering you on in the New York marathon one year (or if you give me a few years I'll run it with you?!).

It was a very inspiring (and pretty emotional) way to start our Sunday.