Notes
Philadelphia Marathon. Didn't really train as well for this as last year, so pretty happy with my time. About 12 minutes slower than last year, but still my second best time by a good margin. Both achilles were noticeable for a lot of the middle/end of the race, plus right gluteus or something was really noticeable from about mile 10 and onwards -- it wasn't really a problem is I ran about 8:20 pace, but pushing any faster than that was tough. Felt pretty miserable overall at the finish. Ran fairly even splits: 5k: 25:55 (8:20 pace for first 5k), 51:19 (8:11 pace for second 5k), 1:17:29 (8:25 pace for third 5k), 1:43:19 (8:19 pace for fourth 5k), 2:09:15 (8:21 pace for fifth 5k), 2:35:29 (8:27 pace for sixth 5k), 3:02:20 (8:39 pace for seventh 5k), 3:29:01 (8:35 pace for eighth 5k), 3:39:52 (8:02 pace for final 1.35 miles). NB: Chip time slowed down by 9 seconds for some reason since earlier, and it's now slower than my watch, even though I waited a few seconds to turn my watch off after crossing the starting line. Whatever.
Temperature: 26 at the start, 34 at the finish. Humidity 63% at the start, 45% at the finish. Mostly cloudy/partly sunny throughout. Wind from East between 9 and 17 mph during the race (didn't really notice much wind though).