Anyone here "track" family, friends or acquaintences at Boston this morning? I tracked 4 runners (all in the 3:05 to 3:20 expected finishing time), and they all ran horrible positive splits (finishing between 3:20 and 3:35). The conditions looked good on TV, so I'm confused as to their results.
Anyone else notice poor finishing times for the masses, or did I just happen to follow 4 people who had a crappy day?
I PR\'d ...but, only my second marathon and I\'ve never run Boston before.
My Uncle ran it, he said that the conditions were good but a tad on the warm side. I think it was deceptive because any wind would cool you and lure you into a false sense of the heat. And yea, he was on pace for 3:45 at the halfway and ran 4:08.
The runners I tracked their times looked a bit off. I think the conditions were good, not great. The sun was bright with a slight east headwind.
I went for a run in Hopkinton this morning and the weather was perfect (maybe a touch cold for some), this was about 8:00. About 2 hours later it had started to warm up, but it never got so hot as to make me think it wasn't a good day to run. I caught a train into Boston later on, around 2, and it seemed a lot cooler there then out at the start. The weather really shouldn't have been a factor today from what I could tell. Perhaps not dressing properly would be more of an issue.
My splits were 1:35 and 1:41. In seeing the weather reports, I knew it would climb into the 60's as the race went on. I haven't done 8 miles over 60 degrees this winter (snow is almost melted in the yard) so I worked harder in the first half and backed of some. The stretch from Wellesley to Cleveland Circle were warm. Lots of us looked like salt licks at the end.
I wanted to break 3:20 but didn't really get in any quality MP work this winter.
i ran a 20min postivie split (2:26PR), so i think it was a slow day. but then again, i had a completely awful day, so who knows.
Boston29 wrote:
My splits were 1:35 and 1:41. In seeing the weather reports, I knew it would climb into the 60's as the race went on. I haven't done 8 miles over 60 degrees this winter (snow is almost melted in the yard) so I worked harder in the first half and backed of some. The stretch from Wellesley to Cleveland Circle were warm. Lots of us looked like salt licks at the end.
I wanted to break 3:20 but didn't really get in any quality MP work this winter.
1:35+1:41=3:16?
My bad, the brain isn't sharp at this point. Ran the second in 1:46 and change.
I have since the original post, started my ice cream diet though. Life is good.
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