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Bilbao Half Marathon

Another long MBA second year weekend and we headed to Bilbao in northern Spain for the night marathon - well, the half at least. We decided to rent a campervan again since we enjoyed it so much last time, and got on the road. Since I hate toll roads, I think we took the more scenic approach which led us by the Pyrenees (the toll road probably had the same view) and we stopped in Pamplona for the night. We didn't see anything there to be honest and left pretty quickly the next day to get to Bilbao. We walked around the city a little bit and went to the expo to pick up my bib and all that, and ended up doing a little expo shopping! Lain and I got some new shoes for a great price, so we are really happy about that. Bilbao itself was really cool (once we found somewhere to park a campervan), it is really hilly around the city and straddles a river. There are quite a few cool landmarks that I'd be running by the next day. We really enjoyed walking around and stopping at a nice p