A note to Telegraph Blogs readers: thank you

I wanted to write this while my legs still hurt.

Yesterday, as some of you know, I ran the Royal Parks Half Marathon in support of St Mungo's, a charity which supports homeless and vulnerable people. I made it around, and in a personal best time (the "chip time" says 1hr 43m 55sec, but I'm going with my stopwatch time of 1hr 43m 27sec which doesn't include a brief comfort stop. Either way it's more than a minute faster than my previous best).

But enough about me. I wanted to say thanks to those of you who sponsored me: the names I recognised were Kevin Monk, Damon the prophet, Phil McG, Molybdenite, Hamish Redux, Eccles, Janet Webb, Ernest Chaussette (who called me "a loony, but a nice loony") and Damocles. There were a few anonymouses in there as well, so thanks if that was you; and do let me know if I've missed anybody. I know a lot of you disagree profoundly with me on a wide variety of topics, so I really appreciate you putting that aside for a good cause.

At the risk of turning this into an Oscar acceptance speech, I also wanted to say thanks to some Telegraph colleagues, Ed West, Damian Thompson, Marcus Warren, Shane Richmond, Juliet Turner and Ian Douglas; and from outside the Telegraph, James Higgs, India Knight and Kat Brown. My non-journalist friends and family I'll thank personally.

I'm hobbling around today, but very pleased with myself. To put my success into perspective, though, my girlfriend did it in 1hr 40m 55sec, and I'm pretty sure that the editor of this newspaper beat me by a good minute or so as well. Still, that's probably better than the other way around, career-prospect-wise.

If any of you do still want to sponsor me, the page stays open for another few days, so please do go here.