Sunday I ran the Philadelphia marathon in 3:29:04. I will write a comprehensive recap about that soon but for now I want to share 26 things I saw while running the marathon. They are in no particular order.
1. A woman holding a sign revealing to her husband or boyfriend that she was pregnant
2. A guy wearing a drifit shirt that looked like a Christmas sweater
3. A sign that said Christmas village
4. A person in a unicorn costume
5. People giving out beer somewhere around mile 20
6. Mile markers that were inaccurately placed
7. A huge hill
8. The longest finishing chute of my life. By the time I walked to the end I could have walked back to NJ
9. The zoo
10. A sign that said, “I need to run 10 more miles but first let me take a selfie”
11. Santa
12. Lots of sparkly soul headbands
13. The turn off point for the half marathon runners
14. Gatorade
15. My teammates and friends
16. A girl wearing hot pink tights. I was jealous
17. The elites on their way to the finish while I still had miles to go
18. The 30k mark
19. Lots of things I could have tripped on but didn’t
20. Water cups all over the ground
21. A sign that said Manayunk
22. The art museum
23. The Drexel university bridge
24. The spot on Kelly drive where I died during my very first half marathon
25. My hair in my face from wind
26. The finish line
The Road Less Run 
Congratulations on running Philly in an incredibly fast finish time!! You must be so happy! I love Philly marathon. Enjoy the rest!
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Thank you! I am happy!
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When I saw the sign for the Christmas village I thought of you and I was hoping that you had seen the sign too! 🙂
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Very cool blog,,, loved the pregnancy revealing
And that selfie sign was so darn cute! The finish was the best I am sure😄 So proud of you Love mom
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That finish line though. I’m so proud of you for running Angela. It was a hard day and truly incredible.
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Congratulations on the Philly Marathon. I hope you are recovering well, you had a great time and it sounds like you had a lot of fun too- which is what really matters :).
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I think I’ll run another marathon one day!
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I’m so proud of you for running such an awesome marathon! I love this list. Especially those misplaced mile markers. :0)
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My watch was 1K ahead the whole race. They got frustrating!!!!
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