Sunday 10th July 2011 marked the end of a very special weekend for the Myotubular Trust with the hugely successful European Family Conference the previous day.

The sun shone as we congregated in our regular spot in St James’s Park where we had the now customary 8:30 am group photo. It was really uplifting to see so many people wearing Myotubular Trust t-shirts and to have so many runners’ friends and family members with us too. It was lovely to see so many of our loyal supporters; a few of whom were running for the sixth time in support of the Trust – thank you Marco, Andrea, Gary, Guy, Mark, Amanda and Paraic. It was great to have lots of new runners too; we hope you all realise how important you are to us.

Friends and supporters waved off our team and then headed off to find good viewing points to cheer, shout and wave from.

After a late start, several thousand runners pounded the streets of London in what we hear was the most crowded run yet. First to join us back in the park was Jeremy – well done on such a fantastic finish time.

Jeremy was followed by a steady flow of hot, proud and relieved runners who came back to join us for a most enjoyable brunch. It was lovely that so many of you were able to stay on for a chat and a bite to eat before heading home.

We would really like to acknowledge Jonas who ran in a bright pink morph suit; we are in admiration of Jonas continuing the tradition of wearing as much pink as possible at the 10k for ‘Team Nathaniel’ in order to stand out in the crowd.

We would also like to mention our three runners from Cap Gemini; Charlie, Leila and Sam. This amazing trio not only worked an incredibly long day supporting the Family Conference on Saturday, they were also setting up the venue until very late on Friday night – we admire you all for finding the energy to run after all your hard work.

Team Will were sporting some new t-shirts this year as well as a few smart baseball caps – you all looked great!

And congratulations to our youngest runners, Scarlett and Tyler, and our friends from Norway, Mai-Lis and Anders - thank you for taking part and we are glad that you all enjoyed the experience.

Dr Johan Bohm and Dr Manuela D’Alessandro, both of whom had presented at the previous day’s conference, came along to support the run too. Thank you for taking time out of your weekend in London to spend more time with us.

We gather that this year the Myotubular Trust was announced several times at different points en route – thank you to those of you who managed to get noticed!

We are so grateful to everybody who came along, many of you having travelled from far and wide and we really do appreciate your support and hope that we will see you again next year!?

Our final thanks go to Lynn who collected our balloons, Jen who picked up the brunch and John who took photos and put together the you tube film. We tried to capture everybody but please accept our apologies if we missed you.

Thank you all!

PS. A number of you mentioned that you thought that next year would be a sell out given that it is the Olympics year and certainly the 10k organisers are pushing that message very strongly already. We have our usual 30 debenture places for next year – please do let us know if you would like to book one. The date is Sunday 8th July 2012.