Berlin Marathon

I completed the Marathon on Sunday 29/09/2013 in 4:48:39,under my target time of 5 hours. I was pleased with my run and although I felt a bit sick at the end that soon passsed and I was walking around Potsdam the next day in little pain and generally feeling better than after some of the long training runs I have completed this year.

I now have my eye on another international marathon. I am considering Chicago, because I have always wanted to go and it would be a perfect excuse to combine that with running my fourth marathon of the 10 marathons I am aiming to complete by age 60.

I've said it before but Berlin is a magnificient city with great places to visit and things to do and is, for a capital city , remarkably cheap. We stayed for four nights in a studio appartment for less than than we paid for two in a studio appartment in London. Food, drink and travel are all good value for money.

We stayed on Wilhemstrasse only a fifteen to twenty minute walk to Unter Den Linden in a place rented from this company . It wasn't luxurious but it was clean and warm and good quality and our appartment was handily located around the corner from a Netto and bars and restaurants that were even cheaper than nearby Freidrichestrasse.