I ran a 3:29 yesterday in Houston. I'm wondering what a comparable performance would have been if it had been 50 degrees at the finish instead of 70. Thoughts?
I ran a 3:29 yesterday in Houston. I'm wondering what a comparable performance would have been if it had been 50 degrees at the finish instead of 70. Thoughts?
It matters what your pacing looked like but sub 3:25 most likely.
FL863 wrote:
It matters what your pacing looked like but sub 3:25 most likely.
I would agree with this. That humidity was wicked. Thankfully, the temps were mild but I would definitely take off at least 5 minutes off your time. The top marathoners were capable of 2:07 but ran 2:12 and the humidity seems to affect elite runners less than middle-of-the-road ones.
It was brutal. I ran with the 3:10 pace group and both of our pacers bonked by mile 20. I am pretty sure I passed one of the 3:00 pacers as well. The 4:00, 4:30, & 4:45 pacers dropped as well.
My splits were 1:42/1:46
Sorry, 1:43/1:46
JustWondering?? wrote:
Sorry, 1:43/1:46
That's pretty good distribution of effort for Houston. I was 1:27 at the half, and finished in 3:08 1:41 2nd half). The thing is that it was not actually hot, but you just couldn't cool off, so you eventually overheated. The first 17 miles felt sooooo easy! I thought I had and easy sub-3, and my other races indicated that, too, so I guess the humidity - not the heat - cost me 8 minutes. It's too bad Rupp didn't bring any hats to donate to us.
So you think 5-7 mins?
Final bump
it depends. some people run better in the heat the others. anything warmer that 60 is a non starter for me.
5-15% as you climb above 55 degrees
5-15% would be 10-30 mins for a 3:30 marathon. That seems WAY too high.
you could look at Kipchoge's Olympic Gold performance in Rio - 75 degrees.
pretty much 5% worse than his PB.
personally 75 degrees would be a 20 minute hindrance.
Yeah, I see what you're saying. That just seems like an awful lot. It was about 64-70 on race day with 90% humidity the whole time.
I would say 3:20 in good conditions. Temps were actually not that bad at the start, but that helped kill a lot of people who just went for it and did not adjust. By the 3 hour mark, the humidity was surging with rain building up and it was getting windy. So, anyone who went out quick really got walloped coming back.
Wow, I am super encouraged by the consistent response that I could have probably run 5-7 mins faster under perfect conditions. Gives me confidence that a 3:20 at end of Spring is very possible.
For what it's worth, I had also run a marathon just 5 weeks before this one. So I am sure that had some affect as well.
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
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