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Brighton Marathon for me yesterday, unjustifiably disappointed in the result given when I signed up in December I’d have been happy with a 3:30, but lost a bunch of post baby weight, and ran a 1:24 half marathon a few weeks ago, se t off with the 3:15 pacers, got a bit over confident despite falling over at 9 miles and pushed on to come in around 3:05. By 33k I was faced with a choice, grit my teeth and potentially walk the last couple of miles or slow down and jog it in, went with the latter and came in at 3:14:30 which I’d have happily taken at the start line, but running such a badly paced marathon and hurting so much is what is getting my goat.
The upside was jumping back on the course at 24 miles to run with my sister for the last 2 miles with her, acting like a loon and generally having fun,