I finished the 2006 London Marathon in 2hrs 49mins 49s. So why the long face?
My personal best is 2hrs 47 and the championship benchmark is 2hrs 45. So my goal was to run a sub 2.45 marathon. I ddn’t, so that’s why I’m disappointed.
So where did it all go wrong? If you’ve been following my physio diary you’ll notice I picked up a knee injury about 6 weeks out from the marathon. The last 6 weeks are a key period but my physio advised me to severely limit the amount of time I spent running in order to avoid further injury. So basically I only really managed to run at the weekends for the last 4 weeks of the marathon build up. I’d done all the hard work in Dec, Jan, Feb but was hoping to put the cherry on the cake with a few big weeks towards the back end of March.
The race itself went fairly well with the following mile splits
1 – 5.50
2 – 6.05
3 – 5.44
4 – 6.03
5 – 5.59
6 – 6.16
7 – 6.21
8 – 6.11
9 – 6.07
10 – 6.22
11 – 6.13
12 – 6.12
13 – 6.23
14 – 6.18
15 – 6.22
16 – 6.15
17 – 6.27
18 – 6.28
19 – 6.30
20 – 6.37
21 – 6.52
22 – 7.00
23 – 7.12
24 – 7.09
25 – 7.45
26 – 7.30
26.2 2hrs49m 49s
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