My first marathon… I’ve been training for this for 18 weeks, and I’ll write more elsewhere about how I did and lessons I learned. Suffice to say, it was a fantastic race. I looked long and hard for my first marathon.  I didn’t want something too huge, with 20,000 runners and a claustrophobic start line stinking of deep heat and over confidence.  And this one looked pretty close to the sort of terrain I like...