jecht wrote:
Free_the_thigh wrote:
I think the real take away from that section is to run even splits(which he says is ideal). A 2% difference really isn’t much.
If your splits are within 2%(positive or negative), you ran a great race.
If you hugely negative split, you ran too slow at the beginning, if you hugely positively split, you ran too fast.
There are too many race day variables to justify religiously following positive or negative splits.
Is a split of 1:40 front/1:44 back a 4% split, if I'm calculating it properly? The first value as a % of the second?
Still too large though.
Old thread, but since it's resurrected, it's dang tough to run a negative split in the marathon.
Took me 10 tries to get a negative split... and barely at that.
marathon 1 - 1:27:28/1:35:03 (3:02:31) +7:35
marathon 2 - 1:31:11/1:38:02 (3:09:13) +6:51
marathon 3 - 1:23:38/1:27:16 (2:50:54) +3:38
marathon 4 - 1:25:11/1:28:56 (2:54:07) +2:59
marathon 5 - 1:26:06/1:28:55 (2:55:01) +2:49
marathon 6 - 1:29:11/1:30:17 (2:59:28) +1:06
marathon 7 - 1:25:53/1:34:02 (2:59:55) +8:09
marathon 8 - 1:26:53/1:28:27 (2:55:20) +1:34
marathon 9 - 1:24:27/1:29:30 (2:53:57) +5:03
marathon 10 - 1:29:00/1:28:54 (2:57:54) -0:06