Nice - Cannes Marathon Stephane Toussenel reports: After a week of flood in France, I brought Sun from UK on Friday. And so was the week-end. 10,000 runners gathered Sunday morning with warm temperature expected. Picture taken at 7.30 will give you an idea (I was with Franck, my “Ironman” brother in law). We took place in the 3h00 box and started at 8.45 am. Just imagine a sunny day on the Promenade des Anglais, obviously not for a “promenade” but for a Marathon. The red flag guy -3h00- was a little bit fast but job done when we get to half distance in Antibes in 1h29. on the way to the half I run through to “little wall” I didn’t expect and I think I’ve paid for it when out of Juan-les-pins to Cannes we have a third one, not the last. I revised my target clearly and managed to save my calves until the finish on La Croisette. I even do a last sprint to get sub 3h10 and so, an official 3’09’’59 gave me a smile. Gavin was right, I reckon I missed few miles training…so next time. The route is really beautiful as expected, and we have a “patchy crowd” split in the different cities we ran through and in Cannes it was helpful to give a last breathe to finish. That’s one to do, where you can expect a sunny over 20 degrees weather, that I suffered a little bit from… That was my last race of the year and I deeply thank all the striders who drive me to all thee successful events. 2008 was a special PB year I’m happy to close with another one, kind of Christmas present to you all.