The above is my splits for the race yesterday. I had a pretty dodgy period in the middle of the race, however, my finish was encouraging.
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- Steve Schumph
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- A middle-aged man trying to fight the ravages of Father Time and increase his fitness enough to be competitive in a marathon with his childhood friend .
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What happened in that last row, the "end"? Looks like you lost 45 seconds. What am I missing here? The second to last row, the last mile, however, was speedy. Pretty gutsy.
On the last little bit there was two shutes - one for marathoners and one for 1/2 marathoners and 10K people. I was guided into the wrong shute and had to turn back and correct myself as I had went in the wrong direction... so I lost some time there.
I should add that the final little bit is only the .1 section of the 13.1 so anything that impacted that section would have a huge impact on the pace for it. Another mitigating factor was that the section was uphill and the way the race was set up, 10 K people and 1/2 marathoners were arriving at the finish at the same time creating a fair bit of congestion to weave through. That said, going up the wrong shute and going uphill were probably the main factors.
That's too bad. Not so much for your time, but for the race itself. But I sympathize with the organizers. It's a challenge to design a course that ends in a downtown or in any place where lots of people can gather without disrupting traffic, etc. Even the Boston marathon, an almost arrow-straight point-to-point course, has two 90-degree turns. They are right after one another, and both are in the last quarter-mile of the race. After 26 miles of running straight, those two turns make you feel like a test pilot pulling nausea-inducing Gs.
It's a good thing you weren't gunning for a time in those last metres. 'Twould have been a bummer to have missed it (or a placing) because of the course.
Agreed - i am sympathetic to their plight as well. And really, it wasn't a huge impact - perhaps 10 seconds or so.
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