A second attempt

This past Sunday, I ran my second ever marathon. Just like last year, it was in Lausanne. I’m happy to report that I not only started for the second time, but also finished it for the second time. And I improved my PB by over 5 minutes, from last year’s 4:18:01 to 4:12:25. Which means I unfortunately didn’t hit my goal of running a sub-4-hour marathon. In retrospect, I’m actually glad that it wasn’t even close; I think that would have felt worse emotionally. What I’m happy about though is that with my finish time, I ran the whole 42.2 km at a pace starting with a 5. As close as it gets with 5:59 min/km, but still. And under 4:15 h too, which means I was at least faster than the pacemaker from my starting wave. Overall, the race felt pretty similar to last year’s. So if you want to read a detailed race report that also roughly resembles how I felt this time, go read last year’s post⁠. But there were obviously still a few things that went better than last time (plus some learnings for a…