It has been a few months since I ran the Berlin Marathon 2024. I did achieve a PR of 3 hours and 16 mins, thereabout. It was about a 7 minute improvement over my previous best in the Amsterdam Marathon 2023 (3 hr:23 min). However, I was left with a deep sense of dissatisfaction. Weird, right? In this post, I am going to list out my learnings from the Berlin race and also list out why others in my experience were better. 1. Rushed Expo experience Usually in all expos, my wife and I prefer to enjoy the atmosphere, take pictures, create memories for ourselves and hunt for deals as well. In Berlin, there was hardly any room for us to pause and watch. At one point in time I stopped in front of a stall and a lady bumped into me and shrieked at me, "What's you problem man?" Well, she could have seen me stopping and diverted her tracks as well, but the fact that she didn't see me stop meant she was probably in a rush too. Everyone was in a kind of a rush. Well, there was t...