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Location:

Columbus,IN,US

Member Since:

Jun 13, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

37 Marathons -- PR - 2:48:53 (Fall 2014)

A bunch of Half Marathons -- PR - 1:19:20 (Aug. 2015 - Converted)

10k - 36:30 Unaided // 35:25 (July 2014 - Aided)

5k - 17:28 (Aug. 2015)

1mi. - 4:58 (July 2014 - Track)

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

10k and 5k's to get back into the swing of thing this summer

Sept. 21:  Mill Race Marathon - Under 3:00.  LET's GO!  

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

R2R2R in Grand Canyon  5/18/19 

Marathon < 2:45

Half Marathon < 1:18

Top 10 in Bluegrass 10k

5k < 17

Personal:

400m/800m competitively in track in high school.  Took 15 years off. Started running again in 2010.  Married to my beautiful wife, Tiffany, with 2 little boys, now 4 and 6.  I'm a civil engineer working for the Indiana DOT in Seymour, IN.   I live in a slightly larger town about 20 miles north - Columbus, IN.  Originally from Lexington, KY.

 

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Race: Indy Monumental Marathon (26.219 Miles) 02:50:25, Place overall: 58, Place in age division: 13
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
0.0026.000.370.0026.37

Great weather for running today's Monumental Marathon in downtown Indy.  40 degrees at the start.  50ish degrees at the finish, and no wind, with some cloud cover.  Looking at the Garmin data, it probably could have been a bit less humid...  Fun times - It was great to meet some new guys Nathan brought up from KY, with a couple (?) of them running their first marathon.  They very graciously picked up my packet at the expo the night before, and I met them at their hotel (a couple blocks from the start line).  As we made our ways over to the start line, I lost them somewhere...  I met up and found a lot of Quaffers.  Former runner Danny Webb even snapped some pictures of us... (JK, Danny). 

The most evenly paced, smart marathon I have run.  After 2 marathon fails this fall with a stubborn "forcing" of 6:20 pace on some warmer days, I decided to tone it back to about 6:30 and see how it went.  Off to a relaxed and easy start.  around downtown and through Monument Circle with the usual loss of signal in mile 2 (under the bridge).  Half split is 1:25:44, and I am feeling in control.  Controlled 20 miles in 2:10, no mile splits over 6:39 (except the glitchy mile 2 under the long bridge where the GPS signal is lost).  I push pretty hard in the last 10k to stay around 6:30, and even had a good kick left in me for a finish sprint to pass by a couple guys.  Considering this is my 4th marathon since September 26, I consider this race result a huge success. 

I have been notoriously bad at pacing/positive split in marathon - looking at placings at the the different timing mats, I was in like 90th at the half mat, but finished 59th... ~1 minute negative split!

Split
Time
Distance
Avg Pace
Summary   2:50:24.9        26.37          6:28
1 6:29.4 1.00 6:29
2 6:50.9 1.00 6:51
3 6:29.7 1.00 6:30
4 6:30.0 1.00 6:30
5 6:25.4 1.00 6:25
6 6:30.1 1.00 6:30
7 6:28.8 1.00 6:29
8 6:36.6 1.00 6:37
9 6:30.4 1.00 6:30
10 6:29.3 1.00 6:29
11 6:30.1 1.00 6:30
12 6:31.1 1.00 6:31
13 6:29.8 1.00 6:30
14 6:24.4 1.00 6:24
15 6:20.8 1.00 6:21
16 6:23.1 1.00 6:23
17 6:21.2 1.00 6:21
18 6:28.5 1.00 6:29
19 6:16.2 1.00 6:16
20 6:23.5 1.00 6:23
21 6:22.7 1.00 6:23
22 6:17.5 1.00 6:18
23 6:32.0 1.00 6:32
24 6:32.0 1.00 6:32
25 6:37.0 1.00 6:37
26 6:29.3 1.00 6:29
27 2:04.9 0.37 5:36
 
Weather
 
39°
Feels like 36°
5 mph W wind
Humidity 87%

 

Brooks Adrenaline 15 - White Miles: 26.37
Weight: 149.80
Comments
From Jason D on Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 14:08:50 from 68.80.27.222

Well done, Joe. I was pleased to see this in my texts with a perfect negative split. That's how it's done! Not far off you PR if you think about it.

And, yes. 4 marathons in 6 weeks! Well, 5 in ~8 weeks if you count that cheeky little 2:53? training run.

From JimF on Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 14:19:35 from 68.60.236.232

Congrats on an awesome marathon! Great job on the pace and taking advantage to the great weather.

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