Official Results
Event: Philadelphia Marathon
Year: 2005
Bib: 4472
Last name: Lindy
First name: Jeffrey
City: New York
State: NY
Overall: 159
Chip number:
Finish time: 02:59:02
(this is the time from the firing of the gun)
Chip time: 02:58:55
(this takes into account when I actually crossed the starting line, which was seven seconds back on account of the thousand or so people in front of me)
pace: 6:49.439 per mile
splits
- mile 1: 5:55 (this is approximate... the sign said 6:02 as I passed the mile mark, and I was seven seconds back of the gun)
- mile 10: 1:06:25 (6:38.5/mile pace for these ten miles)
- halfway: 1:27:48 (6:52.6/mile pace for the 3.1 miles after the 10mi mark)
- mile 14: 1:33:47
- mile 20: 2:14:50 (6:49.5/mile pace for the 6.9 miles after the 10mi mark)
- finish: 2:58:55 (6:57.0/mile pace for the second half of the marathon, 7:05/mile pace for the last 6.2 miles)
You can see I faded pretty bad in the second half, though apparently I picked it up a touch from halfway to the 20mi turnaround point. After the turnaround point, it was pure "survival mode" running, where I calculated every time I passed a mile marker exactly how fast I had to run from that point on to still break three hours.
I turned out not to need that ambulance, but it was comforting to know it was there. The finish is just around this last bend.
