As allways bring food. :D

Rule number 1: Switzerland = expensive.

Landed in Basel. Bought food. Headed to train station. Remember rule 1? That is right Expensive, luckily if you have entry to the Marathon you get a half price rail ticket.  Phew!! 

Lovely journey.

I did get caught out by the end of the English summer.. Make sure you take warm stuff.. Silly me.

Anyhow.  Expo a short trek from the train station. Number collect, hotel about 500 meters up the road.  In we go, bath, eat some imported French food and good night.

Small town follow so just follow the people to the start the next day.  Lucky for me I found the bag drop sign.. In German so if you did not know what it meant I could see it being an issue.. Bet hey this ain't the UK.  Bit of a slog to the bag drop and a bit of a slog back.. Even worse at the end..

And please remember which block you left your gear, was stood around at the end convinced someone had taking a shine to my Rome bag... Just to work out I was in the wrong identical block.  Upps.

Bit of excitement at the start when the starting balloon bridge thing would not inflate correctly.

Course generally flat, with two leg burning hills, plus a run through a stadium x2.  Then some tripped out Uv lighting section with cheerleaders and pumping music.  Before the long drag down to the finish over the old wooden bridge defences.  Then finising at the randomly placed transport museum.  With an interesting collection of roadsigns.. Worth the trip alone.

On this day the weather was a bit overcast so I think we missed out on the wow views, but an ok race in a interesting little town.

Free good quality rucksack and medal.  You can buy the shirt for about 8 pound...might be the cheapest thing in Switzerland. :) rule 1.