GPS is dumb wrote:
Why not just take your splits based on the actual course markings?
Yeah I will, but I'm contemplating having my watch display the total average pace so I'll be able to estimate my finishing time without doing the math with my previous manual splits and keep myself on track if I start slipping.
You should probably train more on hills.
There are no significant hills on the TWM.
Zee wrote:
How much of a factor is wind along the course (forecast right now is for winds between 10-20mph)? For someone shooting for sub3 it seems like there is usually a group finishing right around there so I'm there will be a pack to run with. Any other advice on running this race? It seems really flat however I've read it's rolling at the end? Is that accurate?
OK Zee, don't keep us in suspense, how did you do?
Raddison wrote:
Zee wrote:
How much of a factor is wind along the course (forecast right now is for winds between 10-20mph)? For someone shooting for sub3 it seems like there is usually a group finishing right around there so I'm there will be a pack to run with. Any other advice on running this race? It seems really flat however I've read it's rolling at the end? Is that accurate?
OK Zee, don't keep us in suspense, how did you do?
It looked like a fast day. Lots of Masters under 2:40. He should have made it.
Ezekiel bread wrote:
What does the course lay out look like?
It runs along the water .
Was anyone else way off for the distance in the half? My gps said I was 13.4 miles & was pretty conscious of taking tangents. Folks that I was running with that ran the marathon were well over a minute faster in their half marathon split than I was for the half.
Nice course, nice race. Kind of frustrating that the half course was off by so much distance wise.
JDRun wrote:
Was anyone else way off for the distance in the half? My gps said I was 13.4 miles & was pretty conscious of taking tangents. Folks that I was running with that ran the marathon were well over a minute faster in their half marathon split than I was for the half.
Nice course, nice race. Kind of frustrating that the half course was off by so much distance wise.
Sorry, buddy, the course is spot-on. And it's actually pretty easy to run the shortest possible distance in that half course, so either you stink at it or, more likely, your GPS is off.
And the full and half marathoners are together until 20km so your weird complain about the full marathoner's splits makes no sense. Do you think that the last 1.1k is actually 1.5 or something? LOL.
Did you not notice where the actual course markers were relative to your watch's laps. Where do you think that it was off? Everywhere??
Yeah- I do think that it was off the last 1.1k actually because most of the other splits were pretty accurate with my watch- I don't know how people running the full with me over a minute faster through the half.
Also, I had some elite women behind me- like within seconds of me through their half split. There were none in sight when we split and at the turn they were quite a bit behind me at the turn at roughly 12k.
My garmin has very rarely been off in the past- if any case it shows stuff at shorter than it actually is. I understand .1 , but it was way off- and there was no way I go from running 3:12-17 per K (so maybe 3:40) to close to 5 minutes the last 1.1k and hold off people.
JDRun wrote:
Yeah- I do think that it was off the last 1.1k actually because most of the other splits were pretty accurate with my watch- I don't know how people running the full with me over a minute faster through the half.
Also, I had some elite women behind me- like within seconds of me through their half split. There were none in sight when we split and at the turn they were quite a bit behind me at the turn at roughly 12k.
My garmin has very rarely been off in the past- if any case it shows stuff at shorter than it actually is. I understand .1 , but it was way off- and there was no way I go from running 3:12-17 per K (so maybe 3:40) to close to 5 minutes the last 1.1k and hold off people.
The GPS on the last km will get thrown off from crossing under that overpass and the tall buildings.