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...