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I had a really good flight, sitting right next to another Marathon runner ....(hard to imagine that there are currently any other human beings in the town).

I was collected from the airport by my sister in law Robin and my younger brother, who had just visited Bob Glover the running instructors and German Silva, one of the former Marathon winners who are massage clients of Robin - what a shame that I missed that !

The weather over here is just great, with clear blue skies and 16C at times (and no storms....).

Yesterday morning I started with a leisurely 1h run, before we took the train to Manhattan, picking up our microchips and start numbers and collecting a lot of free T-Shirts (which seems unavoidable as soon as you take part in any sort of activity over here...).

The Expo was not too overcrowded and pretty entertaining, covering virtually every aspect of long distance running. It really feels hard to not subscribe to another half a dozen Marathons right away, with so many inviting information stands around.

The pre race atmosphere over here is is just brilliant, with so many like minded people, it is pretty easy to communicate.

The only disadvantage with the Expo in New York is that you can't purchase equipment there, but you have to take a shuttle service to a shop down town (where they usually try to bribe you with a free lunch...)instead. However, due to the strong dollar there are fewer and fewer bargains to take advantage of.

We finished the day off with a trip to the top of the World Trade Centre, where we viewed the whole race course from Verrazzano Bridge, through the five Boroughs to Central Park.

Now there is just shopping and relaxing on the agenda before the big race on Sunday morning....