Most runners would not cross finish for at least several hours, but that did not matter to Singleton, who was back within an hour.
But bad weather on the day and tube delays saw just 7252 runners cross the startline.
The bed was a bonfire, red runners already crossed the floor.
He was the 27,346th runner to cross the finish line and came in ahead of 836 mostly younger entrants.
The line moves forward until all runners and walkers cross the start line.
He started the race a day earlier than everyone else and finished two days after the last runner had crossed the finish line.
This year, nearly 35,000 official runners crossed the finish line.
More than 36,000 runners crossed the finish line yesterday with one question in mind: What was my time?
It hit Clark squarely in the back and rolled away as a runner crossed home plate.
The runner crossed the finish line and then collapsed in a heap on the track.