Philadelphia Half Marathon: race report
I'm not sure when I decided to fly home and do this race, but three of my closest friends and two of my athletes were running it, so it turned into a "must do" on the race schedule of my life. And it stands alone as the single race I am signed up for before my next ironman (for now). The best parts of the weekend weren't the race. The best parts were catching up with the friends and family I wanted to see for the 24ish hours I was in DC and the 24ish hours I was in Philadelphia. The race itself was more of an afterthought. A couple days before the race, my friend Liz asked, as good friends do, if I wanted to run with her. A few warm-up miles and then the rest of the race at (her) goal marathon pace. I snorted in amusement of the crazy thought that I could possible run that fast and shipped the plan over to Sonja, expecting to get shut right down. She surprised me, as she likes to do, by rubber-stamping the plan with a there's only o...