Overall Position

29:24.0

A bunch of Saxons invaded my house while I was asleep. They took everything apart from me and I woke up to find my body all cut up and in a thousand pieces.

30:45.0

31:18.0

40:24.0

I am running with my elderly mother

21:22.0

26:00.0

I will be slow as I have to run with my Dad

34:04.0

35:18.0

38:17.0

40:12.0

23:17.0

I'm tired and ate too much chocolate yesterday

24:15.0

I ate too many mince pies

24:54.0

I'm Mrs Claus and I only finished wrapping the presents on Christmas Eve, needless to say Santa couldn't possibly do it!

26:37.0

I am the home secretary's girlfriend

28:01.0

I had too many mince pies yesterday

29:10.0

29:18.0

29:20.0

29:32.0

I am still tired from running in the Lapland marathon yesterday

29:41.0

I run faster in temperatures above freezing

30:41.0

I have a sore throat

30:55.0

I'm a farm bred turkey and someone ate my mother yesterday

30:56.0

I don't normally run

30:59.0

31:08.0

I was forced to do it

31:18.0

31:25.0

33:15.0

33:16.0

33:22.0

I have been running after my friends and family all weekend

34:40.0

35:38.0

35:38.0

36:05.0

The dog ate my homework

36:14.0

It's my first run of 2004 and my last. I'm cold and hungry and should be in bed

37:00.0

37:27.0

I can't think of an excuse to begin with - so it's a lost cause and downhill all the way really isn't it? Never mind though, it's the thought that counts.

39:30.0

I drank too much coffee

39:34.0

39:50.0

40:15.0

Unfit, very cold, hungover

40:25.0

I am running with children whose brains have been fried by playstation

41:50.0

43:39.0

I've eaten too many chocolates and mince pies

Senior Men

18:13.0

Up all night delivering presents

19:06.0

19:30.0

I haven't trained. Drunk too much. Ate too much. Was up all night drinking alcohol, please see the attached note from my Mum.

19:33.0

19:38.0

My reindeer, Rudolf, Comet etc. are held up in quarantine at the airport, so I'm running without my support team. Santa

19:56.0

A baby and lots of relatives are here

19:58.0

20:24.0

20:46.0

20:51.0

Delivering millions of presents in just one night is seriously tiring

20:55.0

I was up all night making love (sic) to the home secretary's girlfriend

20:55.0

Well I am here - but you don't know I'm here so you won't know if I am or not and anyway I'm too busy saving lives ..... Who Dares Wins

20:56.0

It's the wrong kind of frost for my technique

20:57.0

I am weighed down with guilt for abandoning my wife and daughter on Boxing Day morning

21:15.0

21:17.0

21:21.0

Got up five minutes ago

21:42.0

In my rush to get away from my mother in law I failed to remember my spikes

21:55.0

21:57.0

22:03.0

22:14.0

22:16.0

22:38.0

I've been promised turkey for breakfast, so I'm in no rush to finish

22:58.0

Twin babies - no sleep

23:02.0

23:10.0

23:31.0

23:50.0

24:09.0

Too much turkey

24:33.0

I'm up against the most talented 5k runners in the country

24:38.0

I misread "fun" and "run" as "bun"

25:31.0

30 years of running have left my knees graunching - and the medical profession have not got their finger out to find a cure ...

25:45.0

I need to finish after everybody else has left, to that I am not embarrassed to put on the knitted sweater from the mother in law.

25:49.0

I never do

26:08.0

26:17.0

Although I cant get a note from my mum, I don't feel well

26:21.0

My Christmas present Garmin Forerunner pace partner was hungover

26:30.0

I'm a vicar and Christmas is my busy time - honest!

27:09.0

I am suffering from obesity

27:52.0

27:59.0

28:00.0

There was a young man - lived in Pirton, whose running was extremely certain, but of kit he had none, for it had all gone, so he used his wifes trainers to get on

28:09.0

28:17.0

28:45.0

29:43.0

29:58.0

30:01.0

30:01.0

30:18.0

30:18.0

30:26.0

I'm walking backwards for Christmas

30:41.0

31:12.0

I only asked for directions to the sales and was told to "follow the crowd"

31:15.0

31:20.0

31:39.0

I am jet-lagged after flying my daugther back from the Lapland marathon in my private plane.

32:25.0

32:33.0

I'm too hungover to think of an excuse

33:08.0

33:12.0

33:17.0

34:05.0

36:08.0

The sun got in my eye

36:14.0

I forgot to bring my bus pass

37:10.0

I got up at 4am because I thought the race was at Pirton in Gloucestershire. When I arrived I met a man on a horse who said I had come to the wrong Pirton. He said I needed the Pirton in Wiltshire. When I arrived there, I saw a farmer who said he was the Chairman of the Parish Council and that he knew everything that was going on in the village, so it must be Pirton in Hertfordshire - which was only 6 miles from the start of my journey in Luton. So I am tired.

37:29.0

She made me do all the washing up yesterday and my hands are really sore and have developed deep cracks.

40:13.0

40:37.0

43:41.0

It's too cold and it will take me 3.2 miles to warm up