Dan
Oct 20th, 2006
Oct 20th, 2006
Toronto Marathon Split Times
Well, the marathon is over! Four days later, and I’m almost walking normally again. I’m in the process of writing up my report, but wanted to get my split times off my watch, and figured I’d throw them up in a post. I was shooting for 3:10, and thought I was there at the halfway point. Take a look and you can see that I was on pace up until 39km, then just couldn’t dig deep enough for that finishing kick. More to come!
| KM | Time | HR | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4:07 | 161 | Off to a fast start! |
| 2 | 4:11 | 174 | Heart rate’s getting high. |
| 3 | 4:15 | 173 | Settling in… |
| 4 | 4:25 | 175 | Better pace, heart rate still is high! |
| 5 | 4:25 | 175 | 5km – 21:23 (4:17/km) |
| 6 | 4:26 | 177 | Pace I want, but can’t get the heart rate down! |
| 7 | 4:07 | 178 | Fast one! |
| 8 | 4:12 | 180 | Fast – but look at the heart rate! |
| 9 | 4:26 | 179 | |
| 10 | 4:18 | 179 | 10km – 42:53 (4:17/km) |
| 11 | 4:24 | 178 | |
| 12 | 4:25 | 179 | Still got the heart rate high… starting to worry now! |
| 13 | 4:15 | 176 | Running strong. |
| 14 | 4:22 | 178 | ~ 1/3 finished: 1:00:24. At this point I was dreaming of 3 hours! |
| 15 | 4:21 | 178 | 15 km – 1:04:45 (4:19/km) |
| 16 | 4:17 | 178 | |
| 17 | 4:25 | 180 | Look at the heart rate again! |
| 18 | 4:11 | 178 | Pushing it on the downhill! |
| 19 | 4:18 | 179 | |
| 20 | 4:20 | 178 | 20km – 1:26:16 (4:19/km) |
| 21 | 4:03 | 177 | Down Hog’s Hollow – Fastest kilometre of the day! Feeling great at the halfway point! |
| 22 & 23 | 8:46 (4:23/km) | 183 | Great pace coming up the hill! |
| 24 | 4:29 | 181 | Not getting the heart rate down. |
| 25 & 26 | 9:11 (4:36/km) | 177 | First kilometres over 4:30! |
| 27 | 4:47 | 175 | Starting to slow. |
| 28 | 4:48 | 175 | 2/3 Finished – 2:02:20 (1:01:56 for stage 2/3). Only two minutes off the pace of my first 14km, and I know I’m hitting the downhill stretch. Still thinking 3:10 is possible! |
| 29 | 4:53 | 173 | Feeling the burn… getting worried. |
| 30 | 4:36 | 175 | A little better… gotta get the 4:30/km pace back. 30km – 2:11:50 (4:24/km) |
| 31 | 4:38 | 175 | Still holding on. |
| 32 | 4:47 | 176 | Supposed to be downhill! |
| 33 | 4:58 | 170 | Think I walked through a water station. |
| 34 | 4:47 | 175 | Starting to really struggle. |
| 35 | 4:57 | 175 | 35km – 2:35:57 (4:28/km) Need to make 37km mark by 2:45 for a shot at 3:10! |
| 36 | 5:50 | 166 | First big break… walked a lot. |
| 37 | 4:59 | 171 | Split: 2:46:46. Have 23 minutes for 5.2km for 3:10. Can I find the strength? |
| 38 | 4:51 | 176 | Trying to push, but not looking good. |
| 39 | 5:00 | 176 | 2:56:38… realized I’m not going to make it. Barely holding 5:00/km. 2:56:38 (4:32/km) – Would have been right on 3:10 pace! Needed a finish that I didn’t have. |
| 40 & 41 | 12:29 (6:15/km) | 160 | Up hill at York St. Absolutely killed me. Came to a dead stop just past 40km marker… the fellow runners giving me pats on the back was a nice touch though. |
| 42.2 | 6:15 | 169 | Shuffled around Queen’s park, but managed a strong sprint finish. |
| Total | 3:15:22 | 175 |
3 Responses to “Toronto Marathon Split Times”
Good work, Dan. I think that you were very close to your goal.
Did you actually ever start running the the UW XCountry team (maybe it was another running team from UW you were talking about)? I am glad to see that you are getting breaks from school to still do what you really want.
You have inspired me. I am going to restart my little morning workouts starting tomorrow. Or maybe sometime later this week. Or maybe …
I have learned some incredible new training techniques from a monk I met from Tibet. I will teach them to you, although I am not sure you are ready for their power. The question you must ask yourself Grasshopper, is whether you are willing to accept the mantle of awesomeness destined to be bestowed upon you. If you are, then our training can begin. If you are not, then you are destined for a world of fast food mediocrity.
Dan, good work! I feel with you all the way! Here’s a nasty training you can do to keep the pace up till the end: Target to run 15k in half-marathon time. If you cannot make it (when you are 5 sec. slower per km tha HM-pace), rest for 400m in a pace 25% slower than the HM-pace. Then back to the HM-pace until the 15k are done. However: Only the distance run at HM-pace count towards the 15k, not the distance run at the resting pace. Try this 3 weeks in a row (once per week and see how much further you will be able to run from week to week) no closer than 4 weeks before the marathon though. It works!