I'm tracking 7 people I know, 5 I consider as friends. 3 of them have bonked. One guy PR'd. How are your friends doing?
How many of your friends are FLOPPING at Boston right now?
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Big time bonk. 20 minutes over goal time.
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Should have been friends with Tim Chichester.
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One bragged to me he was going to make 2:58 or so, beating his PR.
Today he is finishing at 3:29. -
Mine wanted to run 3:00. Started out at 6:27 pace. Ended running 10+ min/mile at for the last few miles, finishing approximately 3:40. Ouch.
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thepowerofchi wrote:
Should have been friends with Tim Chichester.
Luckily for me, I am :) -
How do you know they actually bonked? They could just be going slow because of the heat.
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i've got a friend who has a pr of 3:03.
was jogging the race for charity (1:45 through 13.1) he's been walking from 25-35 k. -
Tracking 7 myself, 5 have bonked, some of them big time. Two were running awesome even splits.
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dfssdfasdfa wrote:
How do you know they actually bonked? They could just be going slow because of the heat.
If they start out slow and maintain a steady pace they are slowing down due to heat. If the run the first half in 1:30 and the second in 1:45, THEY BONKED. -
Everyone I'm following went out slow and still melted down at 35k-40k. 20-25 mins off goal pace and 8-12 min positive split. Glad I'm not there.
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It is a wake up call that Boston is NOT a fast course, especially when conditions are not ideal. I know about a half dozen sub 3 people running. All but one (who was a solid 2:40 guy) ended up running 9 min miles from the Lowell hill onward, regardless of how conservative their pace was at the beginning.
I ran Boston when it was 75 degrees. You just cannot deal with those hills when you are dehydrated. I cannot imagine how bad it is with temps 5-10 deg warmer. -
I think it's a stretch to say that you know they've depleted their glycogen stores.
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There are 4 from my running club out there, two went from sub 3s to a 3:46 and a 4:01. The other two might have dropped out.
The guys from the Marathon thread didn't fare so well either. -
dfssdfasdfa wrote:
I think it's a stretch to say that you know they've depleted their glycogen stores.
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It's understood that a bonk is a depletion of glycogen. So, yes.
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On friend wanted to run 3:35...went thru 1/2 at 1:45:55....crashed and burned on the second half...3:32:14.....;-)
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looks like two guys I know did fairly decent...something like 2:52-54 and they are both Masters. Good for them under those conditions!
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I ran today. Went out conservatively at 1:28, came back at a dismal 1:43. It was the combo of dehydration and the hills. I weighed myself at 144.2 before the race, and 135.4 after the race including 3 post race waters and I stopped at every water station. It was about 20 min off my PR.
I ran 2:55 here last year. I will say the temperature hurt more than the wind helped last year. We actually had a light tailwind all day today. I really considered dropping out around mile 20. -
My three friends ran fairly decent times (none slower than 2:35) considering the heat. I myself was pretty drunk.
