red deer marathon report part ii - pace/splits
Part one of my Red Deer Marathon race report is Here
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Here are my paces for the marathon. The course was measured in kilometers so I’ve listed them along with the minute per mile pace I hit for each. As you can see, there were few kilometers (six) where I hit my 7:54 minute/mile target. All the hill climbing made that pretty much next to impossible. I could have pushed harder but that would have put me out of my aerobic zone and into severe bonking territory. This race was all about being at the edge of my aerobic zone without blowing off my fuel reserves going up the hills. I slowed slightly at 25k and then again at 35k. Even with the slowing, I still passed a lot of people in those sections of the race.
I’m working on some more details about race and will also answer your questions - in particular, I got several comments about my nutrition plan both before and during the race. Stay tuned!
1-8:59
2-8:38
3-8:39
4-8:04
5-8:20
6-7:37
7-7:46
8-8:04
9-8:07
10-8:04
11-8:01
12-7:27
13-8:06
14-7:58
15-8:00
16-8:04
17-8:02
18-8:55 bathroom break + shed a layer of clothes (lost a minute)
19-7:50
20-7:56
21-8:02
22-8:09
23-7:52
24-8:09
25-8:12
26-8:14
27-8:24
28-8:04
29-8:28
30-8:16
31-8:17
32-8:54 very long climb
33-8:16
34-8:20 quads were beginning to really tighten up here
35-8:27
36-8:30
37-8:35
38-9:12 really battling
39-8:55
40-8:53
41 to 42.2-8:56
Comment by Jennifer
Tuesday May 22, 2007 @
Thanks for that info, Mark. I find it interesting that you give your kilometer splits as minutes per mile pace, but that’s ok.
You were able to keep a decent pace of approximately 8:00/mile for most of the until beyond 32K or so.