{"id":565,"date":"2010-11-21T22:14:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T03:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=565"},"modified":"2010-11-21T22:14:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T03:14:21","slug":"despite-slower-than-nyc-im-happy-to-have-learned-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/11\/21\/despite-slower-than-nyc-im-happy-to-have-learned-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Slower than NYC, I’m Happy to Have Learned Something!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I was in Philadelphia to run the Philadelphia Marathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This was my second running of the race. Last year I achieved my marathon PR of 3:07:32, and this year I didn’t expect to achieve the same because my training just wasn’t as intense. I did, however, hope to do faster than my NYC Marathon time of 3:27:27, which I’d done just two weeks ago. I didn’t beat my NYC time, but I’m okay with that. My official Philadelphia finish time for 2010 was 3:29:39. I thought that because this was an easier course than NYC that I’d do better, but I didn’t probably because I only did one training run between NYC and Philly. My happiness after Philly is that I learned that that was probably the reason, and that training is important: Two weeks off from training can spell a significant diminishing of performance even if the race is easier.<\/p>\n

Unofficial Race Stats per Garmin:
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