New Jersey Marathon - Philip's Race!

Two weeks after the Boston Marathon, Philip ran the New Jersey Marathon in Long Branch, New Jersey. He had chose this marathon because it's close to New York (2 hour train ride) and it was only two weeks after Boston so we could train together. I ran the Half Marathon too so we ran the first 13.1 miles together.

Long Branch is a beautiful beach town along the New Jersey coast. I hope to go back to the area again just to hang out on the beach, especially since it rained the entire race! It didn't hold back Philip from having a good time, though. He finished with a record time 3:35:09 beating my best time, which was his goal of course! :)

I had a fast half too finishing at 1:41.29. Philip went out really fast and strong for the first half (a little too fast) and started to hit the wall at mile 16. But he held up the rest of the

race and did awesome! The photo above on the left is of Philip just near the finish. You can see the coast behind him.

It was a great marathon but the rain was a bummer, especially at the end of the race. Philip could barely walk because he was so sore and it was pouring outside. The walk seemed to take forever from the race finish to the train station. We stopped to have some lunch at this pizza place and then headed home. We were tired and Philip was so sore. I think it took him a full week to feel "back to normal" again.

Here's Philip with his medal smiling through the pain. :)