Just thought I would give you a quick update about how I fared in the Melbourne Marathon on the weekend.
First of all I managed to finish which was my main goal 
My time was 3 hours and 50 minutes which was 10 minutes under my 4 hour goal - so I was very happy.
The best part of the day was being surrounded by over 20 thousand fit and active people. There was a great atmosphere and feeling throughout the race – nothing is more inspiring than seeing an 80 year old grandmother completing in the full marathon. What an effort!
I had trained and prepared well so my run basically went to plan. At 30km I started to feel the pain but the hardest part for me was from 40km to 41 km. For the past 10km I had been telling myself “just make it to the 40km mark and you are basically there”. This worked very well but when I actually got to the 40km mark I realized that I wasn’t there at all! – I still had 2 more bloody km’s to go
Anyway – Thanks to everyone for all of your support and encouragement and let me know if you want to join me for a marathon in the near (or distant) future
Cheers Banjo Smyth
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