Well, it was not a well run marathon, but, I did do it. There were less than 200 people running the marathon and I had run the first half marathon reasonably well and as I had planned, the second half however, I made an incredulous discovery that at hthe 22km drink station I had ingested an Endura sport drink that did not go down well and I had 'hit the wall' soon after. I had been doing over 100km to 120km per week leading up to the Brisbane marathon. I was used to doing 34km with little trouble at all since I was running to and from Beenleigh which was 34km from my home at least once a week. Strangely, though, that during the Brisbane marathon whilst I was stopping over at one of the drink stations namely the 22km drink station an old man came out to me and offered me Endura which I took and not long afterwards I had 'hit the wall' sooner than I had expected and I flet very drousy and sleepy, still I continued but running much slowly though. This is not my first marathon and I am familiar to whta my body is capable of doing. In the end my  finishtime was very unflattering. However, I did jog my way to the finishline not feeling tired at all but annoyed that I had 'hit the wall' sooner than I had expected. I was annoyed at the drink station old man who came at me with the endura drink that was not endura at all, since I was loading up with endura for days prior to the marathon. there were 179 runners doing the Brisbane marathon I came 108. I should have come in the top 40 with my expected training times. Still the marathon has been done and I am bnow preparing for the Gold Coast marathon wherethere ought to be over 2,500 runners. Yes, I have run marathons before and, yes, I do know bad eggs are out there.

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