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Things did not go well for your boy today. Felt meh on the opening climb, and pretty fine through 10 miles. Not great, but I figured I'd be able to jog everything and end up somewhere around 5 hours. Somewhere on Tramway things just went sideways, might have tried to plow too many gels in too short a time, but all of a sudden my stomach turned and I started puking. May have frightened a few cyclists and hikers, but from then on it was full on survival mode. I would eat/drink at the aid, eject, and continue forward SLOWLY. I was passed many times over, but at the final aid station I sat for a while with Andy and he gave me a nice cold beer which was the only thing that stayed (relatively) in me. Jogged down to the finish and had a nice nap in the shade. So, probably a bunch of lessons in there to reflect on, but number one is simple humble pie. The marathon did much more damage to me than I thought it would, which nixed all of my planned training between the races and I simply wasn't ready. Have a bunch of time to train for GT now, and I'm excited to get started on that. Gotta figure out a good balance between bike/run, but certainly will lean run heavy. Need volume and vertical.