Notes
Goal was sub 3 and I missed. No regrets. No excuses on strategy. I wouldn't change a thing. It just wasn't my day and my quads couldn't keep up with the rest of me. Could have kept going, just not at the pace I wanted. I do think the fact I missed my sub 3 goal overshadows the fact that I just ran an 8 minute 30 second PR, at Boston no less, in just six months.
Threw the pacing strategy out and ran by feel. Everything was comfortable but the quads. They were showing signs of trouble early. I'm a lucky bastard to be able to hold it together for the last 12 miles of daggers in the quads. They went totally rubber/numb after running down into Cleveland Circle. Fuel and endurance weren't an issue whatsoever. I've got to focus on whatever I need to do (probably hills) to get the quads to power through 26.2 and I'll probably see another nice gain.
Met my B goal which was 2012 BQ -10.
8:30 PR at Boston. Not to shabby.
I was seeded 5461 and finished 1934. That's 3527 better than my seed. Not many can say that, especially if your number is less than 3527.
4.5% PR improvement
I'm hungry for more.
<<I'll have to further purge my thoughts on the race into more notes as the come...>>
3:03:32 (1:28:50/1:34:22)
5K splits:
21:00
21:03
21:04
21:08
21:19
22:17
22:31
23:27
9:17
5k 10k 15k 20k Half 25k 30k 35k 40k
0:21:00 0:42:03 1:03:07 1:24:15 1:28:50 1:45:34 2:07:51 2:30:22 2:53:49
Pace Offl. Time Overall Gender Division
0:07:00 3:03:32 1934 1796 1247