I had a wonderful race with my husband on Nov 6th. It was my first Marathon in the states and I was so impressed with the high level of the organization, the incredible encouragement from the crowd as well as the support of the huge numbers of volunteers giving us

"Having failed to secure a spot in the NYC Marathon (the only marathon I've run -- and only once), I looked for a race that would be close to home, and have good crowd support. I read up on Philly, saw that it was fairly flat, and that there was

The year that I ran it was one of the coldest on books but the route was fantastic and the event was put on flawlessly from a runners point of view. The course is more hilly than what I am use to but the crowd along the route was amazing and