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yep Paris......
Nah that started 34 posts ago !
The total distance at the end is simply of academic interest - but interesting all the same if there are big variances.
I did actually run quite a long way along the blue line, but it did seem there were various places you could cut the corner and run inside the blue line. Does this mean you could end up running less than 26.2 ?
PS - do you need lessons in how to use a Tyvek strip to tie a chip onto your shoe???
bad luck though
Just looked at my Garmin data again and it seems I ran up a very steep hill at 18 miles too....perhaps I did go up in the tardis!!
talking of chips - I was outside Buck House waiting for my missus to come along and the marshalls were pulling out all those without numbers - aka cheating b*stards just along for the ride - one guy pulled out had put a chip on his shoe and kept pointing to that to say "look - I have a chip - I'm kosher"............he didn't win the argument! probably saved it from a different race.........
distance page ,all way round from start to finn kept custom page on %MHR/LAP SPLITS(EVERY MILE) & AVG LAP %MHR.Ran perfect race !.kept in 84%/94%mhr & got best time for 15yrs!since i done 2.40.08 in 1991.
2hrs 45mins 04 secs this year.My 301 is priceless,best coach ever!just as long u
understand all your H/R values & your own
body stress levels.
results page!.
any one else had same problem!!.
James L Heath.
OMG
I have lloked up your time
ffffimg BRILLiANT
you got it now?
I was at the blue start - it measured the first mile as 0.96; from mile 2 to mile 12 it was just about spot on; after that, no more than about 25 metres or so off the markers till about mile 20, then I kept forgetting to look - my brain stops working after about 18 miles!!
It is quoted as +/- 3%, which means I could have expected anything from 25.4 to 27 and still be within the quoted accuracy.
I didn't follow the blue line, so I guess I actually ran further than 26.2 miles anyway.
Two things are important for me here -
firstly no loss of signal as it's not GPS;
and secondly I use it primarily as a pace guide as I trust the FLM chaps can measure a distance accurately!!
And I don't really care that the pace it shows me is ACCURATE, as long as it is CONSISTENT - I know I wanted to keep at an indicated 8:45 pace 'cos that's what I did in training. I don't mind if that's really 8:35 or 8:55 - I just know I can sustain the indicated pace.
The only way to measure the course accurately is get one of those measuring wheel thingies that road surveys have and follow the blue line ..... maybe I'll go in a 'road-measuring person' costume next year, with a POlar on one foot, a 301 on one arm and a measuring wheel in the other ....