A.F. Vandevorst’s Filip Arickx Shares His New York City Marathon Diary Inline

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    Seventeen miles behind me and feeling great. Let’s dance! Still 9 miles to go.

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    How great it is to have New York friends cheering you to the finish, shouting out loud your name. Is it the friends who boost me or am I on a runner’s high?

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    Running through Central Park with just three more miles to go, but they feel like another marathon. Good friends are great to cheer you to the finish, but I think I need God right now.

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    I made it! Another “check” on my bucket list. Three hours and 59 minutes is not what I had in mind as a finish time, but what an experience!

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    And here’s my finisher’s trophy!