Philadelphia Marathon
Cold - Very cold. Ran slowly - very slowly. Still had fun - very much fun.
Yesterday I and several friends ran the Philadelphia Marathon. For Jeff & Allan's impressions you can listen to their Running with the Pack podcast. Stevie, Anita, & I all stayed together throughout the entire race. Out time was slow but we enjoyed ourselves. During the race,Stevie kept sending updates to twitter and photos to Flickr. I also sent a few texts and even had two phone conversations while on route. Obviously, experience was our focus and not time.
I'd like to take a moment to thank the spouses, Anita's in-laws, and my aunt & uncle for being along the route to support us. We had folks we knew cheering us in person at the start, mile 6, mile 9 1/2, mile 13, mile 20 and the finish. AND we had virtual cheerleaders in our pockets. Seriously, the twitter community was terrific, they kept sending tweets all throughout the race to encourage us.
Lastly, I'd like to share my favorite story of the day, and tell Anita & Stevie that we set PW's yesterday. (What's a PW, read on...). Jeff and Allan both set Personal Records yesterday, meaning their best race time ever and known as PR's in the running world. When the text messages came in from Allan and Jeff with this news, we were at about mile 22 or 23. And as Stevie and I were talking about how happy we were for our friend's PR, the man next to me who was definitely over 60, possibly over 70, said: "I won't get a PR today, but I'm going for a PW. That's NOT a personal worst -- it's a personal WORTH!"
Yesterday I and several friends ran the Philadelphia Marathon. For Jeff & Allan's impressions you can listen to their Running with the Pack podcast. Stevie, Anita, & I all stayed together throughout the entire race. Out time was slow but we enjoyed ourselves. During the race,Stevie kept sending updates to twitter and photos to Flickr. I also sent a few texts and even had two phone conversations while on route. Obviously, experience was our focus and not time.
I'd like to take a moment to thank the spouses, Anita's in-laws, and my aunt & uncle for being along the route to support us. We had folks we knew cheering us in person at the start, mile 6, mile 9 1/2, mile 13, mile 20 and the finish. AND we had virtual cheerleaders in our pockets. Seriously, the twitter community was terrific, they kept sending tweets all throughout the race to encourage us.
Lastly, I'd like to share my favorite story of the day, and tell Anita & Stevie that we set PW's yesterday. (What's a PW, read on...). Jeff and Allan both set Personal Records yesterday, meaning their best race time ever and known as PR's in the running world. When the text messages came in from Allan and Jeff with this news, we were at about mile 22 or 23. And as Stevie and I were talking about how happy we were for our friend's PR, the man next to me who was definitely over 60, possibly over 70, said: "I won't get a PR today, but I'm going for a PW. That's NOT a personal worst -- it's a personal WORTH!"
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