The perfect marathon day

A perfect day for a marathon resulted in the second best marathon this season to be run in Amsterdam only behind the world record marathon of Berlin just a few weeks earlier. Winner was Mutai in a time of 2:06:29 and the Dutch runner Kamiel Maase finished ninth in a new national record.
Yours truly finished in 3:35:19. For me this was an improvement of over 2 minutes off my personal best so I am satisfied. I ran an nice flat race with just over 25 min for every 5k and some 27 minutes for the 5k between 35 and 40k. So there is still some rome for improvement either by speeding up a little bith to just under the 25k of by running also the final 5k in just over 25 minutes. However 3:35 something is a nice time compared to the rest of the field as the image shows my fnish time (the yellow figure) relative to the other runners: