Notes
MISSED BOSTON BY 39 seconds! 3.36.38!!!! The race: sunshine, but cold and very windy and gusty the whole way; traffic jam on freeway getting in and at port-a-johns; finished my business there, dropped off warm-ups at bag drop; and squeezed in behind 3:30 crowd at start with 1 minute to go; gun went off and it began; runners were bogged down at start, then began to thin going over Ambassador Bridge to Windsor; Windsor was OK, then went down into tunnel for about a mile (pretty cool) and back out near Cobo Hall; saw Anne at 10 and 14, we high-fived; then went out east-ward to Belle Isle; still feeling pretty good; over bridge onto Belle Isle into 30 mph headwind; ran with head down, almost lost hat a few times; watching ground and thinking I'm not going very fast; made it to the other side of island; running for about a mile with the wind; then reached the end and back into headwind and over bridge to mainland at 20; still feeling OK and almost 3 minutes under goal time, then calf siezes up and I almost go down; cursing, I stretch it a few seconds and keep going, but more shuffling than running; calf loosens up a little, but pace has now dropped to around 8.45-9.00; get to 23, semi-running, with 5K home stretch into wind again; keep going, but calf bites back hard at 24 mile marker; stretch again, cursing and praying simultaneously and keep going, but 25th mile is 9.21; 1.2 to go and still thinking I have a chance, I start to push as best I can; rounding turn towards Ford Field finish, I start to sprint and enter stadium down the ramp at full tilt; hit the Astroturf and the finish at the 50-yard line, punch my watch, look down, see I missed BQ by half a minute...
Splits (some not reliable - mile markers seemed off; some not seen d/t crowds):
1-2: 16.37
3: 7.56
4-5: 16.06
6-8: 22.56
WATER MILE (through tunnel under Detroit River): 7.43
9: 8.41
10: 7.56
10 MILE SPLIT: 1.20.13 (8.01 pace)
11: 7.54
12: 8.06
13-14: 16:12
HALF-SPLIT: 1.45.20 (8.02 pace)
15: 8.02
16: 8.03
17: 8.14 (belle isle into wind)
18: 8.26 (belle isle into wind)
19: 7.48 (belle isle with wind)
20: 8.31 (into wind)
20 MILE SPLIT: 2.41.28 (8:04.4 pace; 3:24 ahead of BQ time)
20.25: CALF CRAMP!!!!!!
21: 9.11
22: 8.44
23: 8.52
24: 8.43
25: 9.21
26.2: 10.12
TOTAL 3.36.38 (8.16.1 pace)