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After that fascinating thread on stats analysis, how about a thread on who's -had the biggest shocker in a race?
My own "Cambridge Boat Race" was the '95 marathon - first half in 1:27, second half in 2:22.
That gives me a daftness coefficient of 1.62 (daftness = time for second half over time for first half), although I think I deserve a special bonus for the fact that my first half was actually quicker than my half marathon pb.
Can any readers beat this for breathtaking stupidity?
My own "Cambridge Boat Race" was the '95 marathon - first half in 1:27, second half in 2:22.
That gives me a daftness coefficient of 1.62 (daftness = time for second half over time for first half), although I think I deserve a special bonus for the fact that my first half was actually quicker than my half marathon pb.
Can any readers beat this for breathtaking stupidity?
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that's a classic!
Must admit I haven't ever achieved that level of daftness in a marathon but during one of our club summer league races last year I did manage to set my minimum time for standing start to completely blowing up. Splits looked like this:
mile 1 - 5:28
mile 2 - 6:47
mile 3 - 6:31
mile 4 - 7:49
;-)
My most stupid event was the Robin Hood marathon in 2001. Although not quite up to Peter's standard, first half in 1:30, second half in 1:55. First mile in 6 minutes, last mile in about 10 minutes.
First 10k 00:45:26 Average per km 00:04:33
Net 16.5 km 01:17:33 Average per km 00:04:42
Final 16,5 01:37:08 Average per km 00:05:53
Towards the end of the final 16,5 km I reckon I was close to 8 minutes per km.
30 km - 3.24
42.2 km - er, 5.10
It was very hot!
First half - 2:15
Second half - 3:41
Daftness coefficient 1.63, just edging me ahead of Peter.
Given my injured staus and lack of training for the previous 2+ months, the surprise is not that the second half was done so badly, but that the first half was better that the official half-marathon PB I set at the GNR a few months later after much better training.
Velociraptor, you are indeed even dafter than me. Congratulations.
current marathon PB is 3:09 from Las Vegas in Feb 2001, so I'm looking to take a REALLY BIG chunk out of that....but could be setting myself up for a monumental daftness coefficient
;-)
FLM 2002
First half: 2:08
Second half: 2:42
Yes, it was a half marathon PB for me at the time too. Why do we do it?
Velociraptor may sneak it on marathon daftness, but you win the "engine stalled on grid" category. Monumental missing mileage musclepower from marmite master.
I am in same position as you regarding marathon. FLM '03 will either be my pb (perhaps a sub-3), or it will be a mare. Well, either way it will be a mare, but hopefully a fast one.
Only managed a couple of -ve split marathons, but even my worst was only something like 1.10 on the scale.
I later discovered he was a sub 31 minute 10k runner!
On these races you're on your own and have no benchmark to set against.