Story for Amsterdam Marathon

This story is a little late, as it refers to my Amsterdam marathon on October 16th , it's a little over a 14 months since I made a sweatpledge to run my first marathon in Amsterdam. I added an extra challenge of cycling to Amsterdam and back . I wasn't sure if i was up to it at the time and I did have my moments I can tell you , I did 800km on the bike and 60km running over a period 14 days, I did some sight seeing either side of the marathon for 4 1/2 days as although I'd been to Amsterdam once before , I had not seen many of the sights. I would like to thank my friend Kajsa for the inspiration to do this challenge. She completed her world record cycling distance record and covered an amazing 52025 km, awesome job. For my ride, I mostly took cycle tracks and trails like ncn 51 ,12 and 41 and the wivenoe trail , over to the harwich ferry, which although slow were very pretty. My marathon time was 5:15, not fast I know, but I'm happy.