Marathon Relay Strategy

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18 years ago 10/26/2007 3:16pm EDT

I'm doing a 4 leg marathon relay, but with just 2 people.

we're both about the same pace, legs are roughly quarter marathons. course is net downhill (cal international) with more hills in the first 2 legs

i can get transportation between the relay transitions so logistics are fine.

what's the best strategy?

1) runner A - legs 1+2 runner B - legs 3+4

- minimises transitions, but both people run halves

2) A 1,3 B 2,4

- 3 switches but both runners get rests

3) A 1,4 B 2,3

- 2 switches, runner A gets a long rest

thoughts?

18 years ago 10/26/2007 3:19pm EDT

re: relayrunner....

I can't see how anything other than option 2 is the best.

18 years ago 10/26/2007 3:29pm EDT

re: sleeper

thats what i was thinking, but i've never run a 10k, rested and then run another one. cool down runs obviously, but rest and then run hard again? i'm wondering what the improvement would be.

if we say the halves would be 1:30, 6:52 pace - we'd get 3:00 for option 1.

an equivalent 10k would be about 6:30 pace. so about a 1:25 half if both quarters are run at that pace. (not sure that 40 minutes rest is enough to repeat the pace)

i guess even if the second quarter, after resting 40 mins is at 6:52 pace we'd still be doing 1:27:30 "halves" so would be 5 mins overall faster.

take a minute out for the 2 extra transitions (need to transfer over ankle chip) it's still 2:56 vs 3:00

option 2 it is!

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