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did the Madrid Marathon yesterday, 3hr 50. 1st one ever so I'm pretty pleased. The last 8km was up hill and I could feel myself slowing down, was aiming for 3.45 but checking my lap times on the way in realised I wasn't going to make it as the gradient was adding 40 secs per km on and I just couldn't do any more. Up until that point my 5km's splits were all within 10 seconds of each other I found out afterwards, so all in all i'm well chuffed.
Think I'm going to do another now, but maybe one were i can train in the appropriate climate!