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Berlin marathon. The experience

Can we do it again? Please! Please! Please?! It's been nearly a week since the big race and I'm still glowing from the experience. I know I had spoken before about the excitement and compared it to what I had experienced in previous races but… this time it was for real.  I set out on this journey with the goal of hitting a new PB. You know, the flattest course on earth, record breaking course, the best athletes of the planet come to Berlin to give it a lash. Truth be said, for mortals like me, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Berlin have all been flat with perfect weather conditions so I don’t think it would've made a difference. I built the expectation for this one out of something that I wanted to do… just because. On Friday morning I set out on the early Aer Lingus flight to Berlin. Apart from a few of families and two guys in suits, I think the rest of the plane was full of runners. For the next two hours you could hear bits of conversations and all of them were runn...