How many of your friends are FLOPPING at Boston right now?

Big time bonk. 20 minutes over goal time.

Should have been friends with Tim Chichester.

One bragged to me he was going to make 2:58 or so, beating his PR.

Today he is finishing at 3:29.

Mine wanted to run 3:00. Started out at 6:27 pace. Ended running 10+ min/mile at for the last few miles, finishing approximately 3:40. Ouch.

thepowerofchi wrote:

Should have been friends with Tim Chichester.

Luckily for me, I am :)

How do you know they actually bonked? They could just be going slow because of the heat.

i've got a friend who has a pr of 3:03.

was jogging the race for charity (1:45 through 13.1) he's been walking from 25-35 k.

Tracking 7 myself, 5 have bonked, some of them big time. Two were running awesome even splits.

dfssdfasdfa wrote:

How do you know they actually bonked? They could just be going slow because of the heat.

If they start out slow and maintain a steady pace they are slowing down due to heat. If the run the first half in 1:30 and the second in 1:45, THEY BONKED.

Everyone I'm following went out slow and still melted down at 35k-40k. 20-25 mins off goal pace and 8-12 min positive split. Glad I'm not there.

It is a wake up call that Boston is NOT a fast course, especially when conditions are not ideal. I know about a half dozen sub 3 people running. All but one (who was a solid 2:40 guy) ended up running 9 min miles from the Lowell hill onward, regardless of how conservative their pace was at the beginning.

I ran Boston when it was 75 degrees. You just cannot deal with those hills when you are dehydrated. I cannot imagine how bad it is with temps 5-10 deg warmer.

I think it's a stretch to say that you know they've depleted their glycogen stores.

There are 4 from my running club out there, two went from sub 3s to a 3:46 and a 4:01. The other two might have dropped out.

The guys from the Marathon thread didn't fare so well either.

dfssdfasdfa wrote:

I think it's a stretch to say that you know they've depleted their glycogen stores.

Is that the official definition?

It's understood that a bonk is a depletion of glycogen. So, yes.

On friend wanted to run 3:35...went thru 1/2 at 1:45:55....crashed and burned on the second half...3:32:14.....;-)

looks like two guys I know did fairly decent...something like 2:52-54 and they are both Masters. Good for them under those conditions!

I ran today. Went out conservatively at 1:28, came back at a dismal 1:43. It was the combo of dehydration and the hills. I weighed myself at 144.2 before the race, and 135.4 after the race including 3 post race waters and I stopped at every water station. It was about 20 min off my PR.

I ran 2:55 here last year. I will say the temperature hurt more than the wind helped last year. We actually had a light tailwind all day today. I really considered dropping out around mile 20.

My three friends ran fairly decent times (none slower than 2:35) considering the heat. I myself was pretty drunk.