Berlin Marathon Expo

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Given this is a marathon Major I had high expectations of this Expo. The expo extended over three hangars and it did not disappoint in terms of quantity of products and displays, but with the weak AUD everything there has became super pricy...it's a good thing though given I have so much stuff at home already.

The place was a bit hidden from the outside, so luckily there were guides who will point people to the right direction.

Naive me. I thought this was where we collect our bibs. No way Jose, this was just the entrance. Turns out you have to navigate pass ALL the counters of sports supplies before you reach to the bib collection counter.

Anyways after much pushing and shoving through a sea of people I managed to swim to this mini Bramdenburg Tor. There you get a wristband which get u access through the start area on the day. (I had unwittingly ripped my off after the expo but after reading the booklet properly I realised that was a blonde thing to do...oh well...)

Eventually I made it out of the area. The place had a massive Adidas area and there were so many people...so so so many people....

It was suffocating. I had to get outside.

The outside area was very nice. It has this propeller plane and a hot air balloon. It was cool, and a pleasant relief from the craziness inside. In all honestly I much prefer a smaller but higher quality expo like Amsterdam's. The Berlin one is definitely huge, but it's like a lot of displays of the same things. The hangar and the plane and hot air balloon are the highlights of the expo in my opinion.