Ahead of the pack

The route of Edinburgh Marathon includes the road along Leith Links - last year we stood for about 45 min before we could cross over on the way up to the allotment while something like 13,000 runners pounded/staggered past us.

This year we remembered to get across earlier, but still stood and watched for a while. All human life was there. There must have been people sponsored for every charity I've ever heard of and some that I haven't. Variously clad in kilts, as Batman, as a chicken, cross-dressed, party frocks, etc etc. Some looked decidedly unlike marathon runners and I would think there were quite a casualties along the road once the sun came out. Power Ranger outfit[/url]?]

At this point in the route they had only done about three miles, but the elite runners were ahead of the pack. This was one of the first female runners I spotted.