Thanks everyone. It's been quite a year - the effort of going from being an essentially useless fill-in at training to being a playing member of a divisional champs team has been very rewarding. Bloody hard work though. I've sweated off a lot of pounds this year, as well as going through what must be many cubic metres of ice packs and grams of Voltaren.
I think Trvln's marathon is the greater physical achievement, though