Well, I finished the race, or did it finish me?! A new personal best of 4 hours 10 minutes. Not bad for a runner now classified as a veteran. I'm convinced that if I'd been free of injury and the weather had been kinder, I'd have done sub-4. Never mind, there's always another marathon. I hear Berlin is a fast course.

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