Top Ten Reasons I’m Running The Broad Street Run Again Next Year

- approaching the halfway mark, City Hall.

Top Ten reasons I’m Running the Philadelphia Broad Street Run Again Next year:

1. Running with 22,000 people is like being swept up in a living river of sweaty human beings. The momentum alone is enough to carry you through.
2. Being served cold beer in small cups by Temple students deadens the pain in my knees enough to finish.
3. Watching the homeless scream with wild abandon and realizing they were cheering for me.
4. Literally running into Governor Rendell at full stride and only being able to muster an awkward “Hey … Edward?!”
5. Getting random schwag including an obligatory T-shirt and a not so expected bottle of Calcium Supplement.
6. Who else out of 22,000 people running will tweet as they run?
7. All you can eat Philly Soft Pretzel buffet when you finish.
8. Having the opportunity to unexpectedly run the whole race with my cousin from Kentucky (unexpectedly met 1 mile in, finished side by side)
9. Hearing ‘Eye of the Tiger’ playing from the ether as you run through Philly (I’m pretty sure it was coming from every open window on Broad).
10. Discoverig that I’m a little tougher then I expected (not much)