Workout holiday marathon.
Donautal marathon. Time 3:07:42. 1st half 1:32:54, 2nd half 1:34:48.
Posn overall 14th, M40 6th.
Beautiful point to point course along the young Donau river on a cycle trail. Very wavy, constant up and down, but inspiring scenery. This is the best I've felt so far running a marathon, I really enjoyed myself. I experimented taking 2 gels for the first time in a race at km 29 and 39 and also tried a gel chip which lasted from km 21-25 slowly dissolving. Being made in Germany it was wheatbeer flavoured. Started slowly and overtook throughout including a few places at the end which was sweet. Ran most of the way on my own which has made me decided to run a big city marathon in the autumn instead of another small countryside marathon.
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