One last post - The Marathon. Or IS IT!!!!!

I hereby declare that what I say here is the truth, nothing but the truth, and an omission about a specific blister location.   Day 4 post marathon. I have been itchiing to remember the day, and tried hard to let some time pass so some refrection could happen, but not too long as to forget details of that day.  However, I am still as excited as I was the moment I finished that run so here goes a full recount of that day, in chronological order. In my long runs through London I have been listening to a zillion of marathon advice podcasts, and learnt some things. One of these was to have a race plan (yeah, that's something that doesn't occur to me, generally), with contingencies, and visualise how to solve those situations without dipping into negativity. Similar advice was to have an Ideal race plan, where everything goes absolutely right, and a contingency race plan, someting to hit on if not feeling that great for whatever reason.  The Race plan Ideal plan was to attempt a 4: