A.F. Vandevorst’s Filip Arickx Shares His New York City Marathon Diary Inline
Photo: Courtesy of A.F. Vandevorst1/5Seventeen miles behind me and feeling great. Let’s dance! Still 9 miles to go.
Photo: Courtesy of A.F. Vandevorst2/5How 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?
Photo: Courtesy of A.F. Vandevorst3/5Running 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.
Photo: Courtesy of A.F. Vandevorst4/5I 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!
Photo: Courtesy of A.F. Vandevorst5/5And here’s my finisher’s trophy!