Starting a thread as have no one to talk about this with in real life...
I ran the London marathon on Sunday, it was my first ever marathon. All of my friends and family made such an effort to support me throughout the marathon and training for it... BUT I didnt have the best experience and didn't get the huge high I was expecting to feel at the end..?
I felt like there were so many people I had no space to run and kept barging into people, I also don’t think other people running it were that chatty? I've always had lots of people strike up conversations at local half marathons but London... none? (Maybe it was my focus face?) The course also wasn’t that exciting, it was mostly just high streets and by the time you got to the landmark I was too tired to notice. The finish line was also ready odd. I thought it would be really obvious but just looked like the bridge they'd set up for spectators so wasn't 100% sure I'd actually finished, there also wasn't the music/ party atmosphere I expected?
Is it just me or has anyone else experienced this sense of anticlimax? I expected a massive rush! Is it just me? Or is it because I was 4 minutes off the finish time I wanted?