Every got the feeling a race just doesn’t really like you? As always, share your totally unfounded paranoia, self-pity and recipes for doughnuts below the line. Oh, and maybe a bit about running too

I really love Berlin, but I’m beginning to think it doesn’t like me much. It seems determined to break my heart - or my legs. Having trained as hard as I think I could, avoided injuries, been in what seemed like great shape - it all went wrong.

Earlier last week I suddenly developed a pain in my hip - seemingly out of nowhere. Yesterday it niggled away at me, growing louder and louder. I stayed on track through to about 25km, but much like my chip (which was faulty, and claims I didn’t even start) my legs just weren’t working. Perhaps my stride ended up imbalanced because for the first time since I started running in 2012, I got a massive painful blister. My legs felt at 30km like I’d expect them to feel at about 40km - just nothing left. When you hurt that much, that early on, things are clearly not going to plan.

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