Watch out on the Advil(ibuprofen)! While that probably really helped your run, you can end up with a condition called exercise-induced rhabdo if you don't hydra

Watch out on the Advil(ibuprofen)! While that probably really helped your run, you can end up with a condition called exercise-induced rhabdo if you don't hydrate properly. Here's a readable article http://www.trailrunnermag.com/article.php?id=193&cat=3 http://www.trailrunnermag.com/article.php?id=193&cat=3 This might be more of a problem for ultrarunners because of the lengths of the events, but on no training at all anything can happen :) BTW, your strategy of taking a walk break through every water station is a great one for your first marathon, regardless of whether or not you've done the training. I do marathons and ultras, but I usually do them pretty slowly.