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I wasn't expecting to hate the London Marathon so much. Everyone says the crowd is amazing and supportive, but I found it too loud and noisy.
My ITB seized up about 10 miles in and I suffered in the heat. After I threw up at mile 18 I felt a bit better but my whole day was fucked and I spent quite a lot of it in tears. Thankfully I was wearing sunglasses.
I finally crossed the line a couple of minutes after 5 hours, which feels like an enormous disappointment, and isn't what I trained or hoped for.
I've written about it in boring detail here.
At least I got a nice hefty medal.
