Here’s a quick marathon update. I don’t have split data or anything at this point, but I should have that on Thursday or so. Here are the short term important bits:
- Watch Time:
- 3:38:08
- Chip Time:
- 3:38:04
I knew that 3:30 was going to be really hard to get early in this race when I was caught by the 3:30 pace group on a walk break between mile 8 and 9. I caught up and ran with them for a while, but lost contact when a fire engine needed to get across the marathon path. Many, many people didn’t stop for the vehicle; including the pace runner.
From then on, I figured that I needed to just buckle down and run my race. My mile times weren’t particularly bad, the just weren’t fast enough to get the job done. I went in wanting to run a 1:40 first half, but that happened somewhere closer to 1:48. I was thinking that perhaps I could invert the plan and get close by running around 1:42 in the second half. I just couldn’t get the job done.
I’m thinking that I’m going to have to drop the half marathon PR down around 1:30 to get to 3:30 in the marathon. I need more speed per mile at a reasonable heart rate. This effort felt very reasonable; however, at this effort level I’ll not make 3:30. I’ll have all the split data later this week.
Tags: Marathon, Miami, Miami Marathon, Racing, Results
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my everything hurts. How ’bout yours? I hobbled all over the Everglades today with my aunt. And hey! I lost 8 minutes off yesterday’s time and now my watch time and official time match! Yay!
You did really well, considering the conditions. And hey, at least the weather didn’t totally suck.
Yep, my legs are very sore. Walking down stairs is still an adventure today, but I think it’s better then yesterday by some small amount. Glad to hear that your results jive now.
There must be something about a race start that causes rain to start or stop. I am very happy that it didn’t rain the entire time and especially happy that it didn’t absolutely bake us once the sun did come out. That would have been very ugly indeed. I didn’t see many people getting pulled from the course, so it seems that we were spared most of those problems. Though my sister mentioned that there were of runners who looked to be in real distress at the finish line. It was probably the first marathon she had ever seen, so I don’t know if that’s distress or something more. I did get asked if I was O.K. once, so I must not have looked so great myself.
Shite! That’s AWESOME! Way to go. Man, I wish I could run that pace for that long.
Wow. Cool. Etc.
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