草长莺飞，樱花烂漫，被誉为“春天最浪漫的半马赛事”——费城 Love Run 于 3 月 30 日激情开跑。万余名跑者齐聚富兰克林大道，背靠巍峨的艺术博物馆，迎着晨曦下的市政大厅，伴随微风昂扬启程，在这座融合历史与诗意的城市中奔跑逐梦。
今年，Phire & Deer 再度联手强势出征，团队名下注册完赛跑者达32人（两团实际参赛人数应更多）。队伍中既有首次挑战半马的新秀，也有重返 Love Run 赛道的资深跑者，无论是速度型选手还是享受跑步乐趣的跑友，都专注前行，挑战自我，坚持到底，直至最终冲过终点。
跑团众多成员发挥出色，刷新个人 PB，展现了长期训练的成果。其中，魏洛刚老师以1:31:08获年龄组第一名，王功翠以1:47:54，侯晓冰以1:41:56，Achilles Shui（跑二代，纪颖儿子）以1:15:37均获各自年龄组的第二名。
Achilles冲刺瞬间
今年比赛最亮眼的要属参赛的多组携手并肩、比翼齐飞的伉俪与家庭：魏洛刚和Carol（7K），翁乃栋和Helen，郑建平和王功翠，Lori和家人，贾兰齐和小奚，纪颖和家人，Wilson和Ella， 他们完美诠释了爱跑的意义——恋人相依，家人相伴，友人相聚，在奔跑中书写温暖，感动与成长。
Love Run 不仅是一场比赛，更是一次跑者间的情感交流与团队凝聚的见证，从组织报名到顺利完赛，离不开相互支持与鼓励陪伴，特别感谢：
💕Phire & Deer 总指挥：回浩，他的精心组织和统筹安排，让团队有序参赛，凝聚更强力量。
💕赛道啦啦队：蒲正、温立亭、林静，郭东林，颜连学夫人，尹东平家属们，他们奔走于赛道沿途，以最响亮的加油、最温暖的笑容、最有力的大旗挥舞和最珍贵的镜头捕捉，为跑者们增添了坚持的勇气和冲刺的动力。
💕私兔队伍：Bridget（跑二代，Lori女儿），颜连学，魏洛刚，侯晓冰，谷磊，蒋伟，米兰，高隆隆，向飞，金京，徐珊珊，王庆华，贾兰齐，他们在赛道上的节奏引导和默默陪伴，不仅提供精准的配速，更用热情为伙伴注入了突破自我的希望。
也感谢下文这些参赛者的故事和感言，带大家重温赛道上精彩的瞬间，感受奔赴热爱的激情，分享拼搏与收获的喜悦。期待下一场比赛，飛跑团继续飞跃前行，书写更多华彩篇章！
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Achilles Shui
Due to a track meet the prior day where I ran a 1600m in 4:29(which just happened to be my bib number lol), my legs, calves especially, were a tad sore and tight when I woke up at 5:00AM on Sunday for the LOVE run. We parked at a garage near the Sheraton and jogged over toward the bag check in. I was pretty surprised that it wasn’t nearly as crowded as when I did the Half two years ago in November. The bathroom situation was nice as there were more than enough portable toilets scattered around the start. My friend Owen and I warmed up at around 7:00AM and went over to the red corral(fastest section) at around 7:20AM. The atmosphere was electric with blaring music and a sea of runners and any fatigue from the early morning instantly dissipated while anxiously anticipating the start.
At 7:31 precisely, the gun went off and I clicked my watch to begin recording. I heeded my mother’s advice and opted to take the first mile out slower and let some of the faster runners get ahead while me and Owen settled in for a pace of around 6:15ish. From there, we just began having fun and embracing the beautiful scenery of the city. About 2.5 miles in, I threw off my gloves as I was beginning to warm up. We had this system where we would pick out a runner in the distance and agree that we would catch them by so and so mile. By the time we exited the city the packs had thinned out considerably and at about 4 miles I grabbed my first water cup. At about 5.5 miles in we caught the second place woman runner and I began to feel a slight tightness in my left hamstring but quickly decided to push through it as Owen had already set our next target in the distance. At this point we were running at a calm 5:50ish pace and the miles were starting to add up in the legs as we crested the first hill passing 3 runners in the process. I could tell Owen was struggling a tad, so I slowed a little so he could catch up after the hill.
At about halfway through, we popped the gel that my mother gave me prior to the race. It tasted so artificially sweet and was definitely difficult to consume, but I could tell it gave me a significant boost as the tightness in my legs was becoming more and more assuaged. We then got water from the next station and set our target on a Hispanic man with white arm sleeves and determined to catch him by mile 8. However, before we could catch him, there was a 180 degree and coming off of the turn I could tell Owen could no longer accelerate with me, so he told me to just go alone. I then accelerated quickly to about 5:35 pace and slowly caught the Hispanic man and then set my sights on this skinny African man who I caught on the second large hill of the race. It was then that I noticed in the distance a whistling noise and the neon bikers who were accompanying the first place woman runner(she beat me by 10 seconds). I held a consistent 5:30 pace and was able to pick off several more runners. Beginning to pump my arms and breath exclusively through my mouth, I was now physically struggling.
I saw in the distance a group of two runners, two white guys, one with curly hair and blue shorts and a man in a white Caltech jersey and did my utmost to slowly reel them in with about 2 miles left in the race. With tons of encouragement from outgoing runners and spectators I slowly caught up with them with about a mile to go in the race and quickly eclipsed them, accelerating to a speed of around 5:15 pace. Seeing the art museum in the distance and a 12.90 on my watch I now launched into a sprint, passed a UPenn club runner with about 800m left, and finished strong into the line crossing the tape in an official time of 1:15:37, a PR of about four minutes! Overall, it was an immensely entertaining and successful Sunday morning!
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杨甜甜
早上4点我从NYC坐Amtrak回到费城。之前也犹豫过要不要回来跑，但是最后决定out of a commitment to myself, I would run the half marathon. 这次比赛taught me several lessons.
两周前我参加过纽约半马，最近两周忙得没有时间锻炼。最大的感觉就是overbooked！健康的跑步方式需要合理安排自己的作息时间，报比赛的时候需要考虑自己的work and travel schedule，不然是强扭！另外跑步比赛其实和任何其他活动很像，台上一分钟，台下十年功。跑得好坏其实主要体现平时的训练。我平时周中跑得比较少，长跑都在周末。这种安排很容易受伤，而且也不利于身体的恢复。长远来说，我要调整我的跑步计划。
因为跑完需要回到纽约，所以我试图早点起跑。跟着老颜去了1:40出发的队伍，那一波有很多人，大多数人目标都在1：50以内。出发早的弊病在于跑着跑着都被别人超了，我以为我跑得很慢，但是手表显示配速是8:19，比我平时跑得稍微快一点。但是被人频繁超过造成一种假象，至少在士气上是很不利的。另外，love run的路线也比较奇怪，出发之后马上在2miles左右折回返回到art museum，很多观众很热情，但是对我来说这又是一种假象，因为感觉已经要到冲刺至少已经跑完一半，但是其实比赛才刚刚开始。跑步比赛的一个重要因素是mental，不要让一些negative signals影响到了自己的士气。
这一路我跑得很曲折，但是中间遇到三个人给了我不少动力，一是在2mile左右听见林静在大喊我的名字，给我加油鼓气不少。二是在8mile时看见魏洛刚老师，彼此大喊了一声加油。三是在9mile左右听见委员长喊“甜甜加油！”后来他和东平和我一起跑。那时候我已经觉得很疲惫了，但是我看见委员长在前面稍微等了我一下，我决定迎头赶上。大概后面的3 miles，我和他肩并肩跑了一路。比赛之前有人开玩笑说私兔是要聊天的，但是我们一起跑的时候基本上是沉默。我想或许支持很多时候就是默默无言。但对那时候非常疲惫的我来说，这种肩并肩跑步的鼓舞是很庞大的。只有一个目的, keep up! 到了12mile 左右，只剩最后one mile。委员长说他要等一下后面的东平，让我最后冲刺。我对他这种默默无闻的风险精神是很感动的。我为什么要参加love run？或许就是因为这种团队精神吧。
之前看过一个采访，是国内一个马拉松选手，清华的一个小伙子，他当时跑出了第一的好成绩，大概是2：10，但是采访时他说刚开始跑他身体不太舒服，想放弃，后来坚持下来了。我当时的反应是，为什么感觉跑得不好却可以跑得这么好？其实这次跑步我一路想的就是放弃，却也managed to finish. 也是我迄今跑的第二个速度。一个比赛是2—3或者4小时，只要你知道这个过程其实是相对短暂的，坚持就是胜利，最后都可以完成！
现在大概是我参加跑群一年的时间，总结一下跑步以及跑群对我的意义.
First, it’s a commitment to myself—a promise to live a healthy, meaningful life.
Second, it’s my way of being part of a team, one that chases dreams together, mile by mile.
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侯晓冰
今年爱️跑继续PR，虽然只有7秒钟。
这是我的爱跑第四年，第一年和林静郑郑共为2小时的跑团私兔。第二年自己跑，目标设在1:42，跑了1:42:35，因为起跑不久鞋带松了，需要穿过还未完全跑散开的人流，到马路牙子系好再切回来。那年和希敏一起出发，后来直到25年1月在Valley Forge跑步见到她，她还记得我比赛中途停下来系鞋带的事故。第三年和Cindy一起跑，起跑狂追1：40官兔，最后体力不济，1:42:04完赛。今年，林静提议起跑还是跟1:40兔子，反正最后免不了掉速，前三分之二段攒够余量。我也是这么执行的，最后3mile开始上坡之后以每mile慢于目标配速30秒跑下来的，最终比去年提高了7秒，跑进了1:41.
我对成绩本没有执念，但1：42始终是心里一道坎。女子45-49组用半马成绩达标纽马的及格线是1:42，跑了两年都没能实现，终于在这个年龄组的最后半年实现了目标，还是挺开心的，证明自己也是有点滴进步的。
谢谢邱老师当车夫接送我们去比赛，谢谢可爱的啦啦队员们，谢谢林静叫到快要失声的一嗓子，谢谢蒲正在终点线前给我录了和我最中意的博物馆一起的视频，谢谢温立亭高举跑群大旗在8mile的地方给我们助威。每次比赛，都是大聚会，平时没能见面的朋友，跑团内外的，都能见一面。
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邱峰
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尹东平
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郑郑
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凌春英
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Wilson 王
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