Notes
2 degrees at the start, 10 degrees at the finish
I learned a lot today. One thing I learned is that I could have pushed harder from 30-40k
Not happy with the time but I'm pleased that I finished.
Started to cramp at 25k and it was bad until 40k. From 27-40k was pure hell, lots of walking, stopping, stretching, swearing and screaming. I lost almost 25 minutes over 13 KM. Whatever happened to me at 40 K needed to happen at 30K. I KNOW I wasn't mentally tough enough, I managed to run the final 3k but it was mostly slow.
Posted a race report in the Racing Forum:
http://www.runningahead.com/forums/topic/a4208d0de2d74e668d1500ffb9f4f370
Pictures here:
http://picasaweb.google.ca/reynolds.jason/2009TorontoMarathon#
Dave had a 9 minute PR..... he had an amazing training cycle and it paid off today.
Place: 1365/1930
Gun Time: 4:27:47.0
Chip Time: 4:26:21.1
Pace: 6:21
Category: M30-34
Catetory Place: 138/185
Gender Place: 995/1287
First 21.1: 1:59:08 (5:39/km pace)
Second 21.1: 2:28:40 (7:03/km pace)
First 30km: 2:54:06 (5:49/km pace)
Last 12km: 1:33:42 (7:49/km Pace - Fail)
Its easy to see where I lost all of my time.
Marathons are fucking hard!