Boston Bound!

Last weekend Philip and I headed to Philadelphia (which is only 1 1/2 hours away) to run the Philadelphia Marathon. I had been training for this race a long time with the goal of qualifying for Boston - which means I had to run the 26.2 miles in 3 hours and 40 minutes...and I did it! Philip ran the Half Marathon so we were able to run the first half of the race together which was awesome - we had a really good first half and I was way under my qualifying pace. And I finished with a time of 3:37:51. I was thrilled and still can't believe it! (Here's a photo of us after the race!) I already signed up for the Boston Marathon, which is April 20th. I can't wait to run in the most historic race!

While Philip and I were in Philadelphia we toured the city, including City Hall (which is behind us in this photo) and ate at this wonderful Italian restaurant called Magianos, so we could fill up with pasta to carbo load before the race. We rode out to Philadelphia with Philip's friend Ken who went to school at Drexel University. He showed us around the city and after the race on Sunday took us to get an orginal Philly cheesesteak from the famous Geno's. Here's a photo of Philip and Ken in front of Geno's.

We hope we'll be able to go back to Philadelphia soon and go out in the city. We had a great time and I'll never forget my experience of qualifying for Boston there...

Here's a video Philip took of me finishing.