Yesterday was the Philadelphia Distance Run. And what a great day for racing it was. Bright blue, sunny skies with temperature at race time in the mid-50′s with low humidity (OK, it was low for Philadelphia, which made it excellent running weather). Almost had a course change due to flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ivan. But Mother Nature happily intervened, and we had the original course, with a short stretch (maybe a quarter mile) of a thin layer of mud on the road.
I was very pleased with my performance (1:31:40), which was a about a minute or so off my PR, but a good time nonetheless. Still short of that elusive 1:30:00 goal though. Maybe next year…
And I need to thank Russ and Sian for helping me through the first 9.5 miles or so (I hope I didn’t slow you down too much). The splits went like this:
| Mile 1 | - |
| Mile 2 | 15:05 |
| Mile 3 | - |
| Mile 4 | 14:08 |
| Mile 5 | 6:55 |
| Mile 6 | 6:52 |
| Mile 7 | 6:49 |
| Mile 8 | 6:46 |
| Mile 9 | 6:40 |
| Mile 10 | 6:43 |
| Mile 11 | 6:46 |
| Mile 12 | 7:06 |
| Finish | 7:45 |
Yes, I missed the Mile 1 and Mile 3 splits. Russ, if you have them, please let me know.
