usef wrote:
You could see it in the video. His stride was completely different from the video around 18 and then at 22.
I noticed this too. His form was really bad at the end.
usef wrote:
You could see it in the video. His stride was completely different from the video around 18 and then at 22.
I noticed this too. His form was really bad at the end.
the wall wrote:
Wasn't he on pace for 2:06.40 at the half? Did he give a reason as to why he couldn't hang on to that? Instead he went backwards quite a bit. Despite the fact that he said he was running a 4:46 marathon pace comfortably in training.
Recently ran my first marathon, 5:40 miles felt damn easy in training and were for the first 18ish miles, quick transition to mile 20 and that pace or anything near it was impossible. I messed up on my fuel and also couldn’t sleep the night before.
Your aerobic fitness and your lactate threshold are pretty correlated with what you can do in a marathon, but some days your body just ain’t using it’s nutrition right and you have a bad or maybe just unideal race.
Because you have to really ride the line of your lactate threshold the entire race, from my understanding you’ll usually run into problems way before mile 20 or 23.5 in Mantz case if you take the pace out too hot.
His pacing was very erratic. Here are his 5k splits:
15:25
14:59
14:47
14:49
15:03
15:00
15:07
15:32
He started out way too slow and it looks like he tried to make that up way too aggressively. From 10K to 20K he was at 2:04 pace. Way too fast.
If he evened that out closer to 3:00 per K I bet he hangs on just fine and breaks 2:07.