Thanks for sharing, and so glad you enjoyed the experience and managed a great time too 
Completing a marathon at all is a huge achievement so it should (despite the pain) be an enjoyable experience.
Interesting you don’t eat so much the day before a marathon, that (and the whole week before) I’m eating big time.
Bagels with peanut butter and a banana are my go to food on long runs and races.
I ran Grandmas marathon last weekend, and I had to eat the most ever during the race. I finished a whole pack of honey stinger chews, I was grabbing free sweets, bananas, and drank a lot of Powerade. No idea why. I ran the Colorado marathon a few weeks before which is physically probably tougher and in a faster time and didn’t even finish a pack of chews.
In Colorado I’d eat 2 chews at a time every 5-7km but then felt really quite sick by 25km and had to hold off until after 30km to resume eating. In Grandmas I only ate them one at time but then at 28km felt pretty out of it and had to eat a few plus sweets and banana and Powerade. No idea what is in that blue liquid, but I guess it helped sort me out!
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