5 course breakfasts, running with the elites and trying to outrun the sun. Limassol marathon.
In my (almost) 4 years of running I had yet to race abroad, no real reason, it just hadn't happened, plenty of races have caught my attention, Zegama , Laugavegur , or pretty much anything in Iceland, but I'd never got much further than the 'ooh that looks good' stage. But that was all to change when a few people I know on Twitter were planning on taking part in the Limassol marathon and asked if I fancied going along, there would be sun, cheese and a buffet breakfast. I signed up. The race fitted into into my already heavy schedule for the first few months of 2017 and three weeks after another marathon, I'm not yet like some others whose bodies are used to knocking out marathons or a regular basis, so naturally I set myself a target of a sub 4 marathon, which would be a PB and my 2nd road marathon, the first was Brighton and didn't go exactly to plan (I bonked massively). Unluckily for me the marathon before L