Zürich Marathon

So this sunday I ran my second marathon. Unfortunately my training was much much lighter this year, and the weather was a bit warm for me, so my time wasn't very good, but nonetheless I enjoyed it. The first 8km (5mi) of the course was through a tunnel (roundtrip), which while initially interesting, and undeniably swiss was certainly a far cry from the hills of Hopkinton. Additionally tunnels have very much their own climate and thus whilst it was still cold outside, the tunnel was very very warm, causing everyone to sweat profusely. I particularly noticed my heart rate being unusually high for the pace. After the tunnel the course went along Lake Zürich down to a small town called Meilen and then back to the city center. There were a number of bands and sources of entertainment along the way, and the support was excellent. Quite a bit sparser than boston, but probably a good thing so you weren't encouraged to overdrink or eat. Sadly no popsicles, wellselley girls, or beer, and a much smaller expo with no particulaly good deals besides finnish toe-socks.





And as always the free video of my finish (I get in the frame around second 24)