Marathon Day!

It was a perfect day for a run. Forecast of 12 degrees C. for the high. Sunny. A bit of a breeze from the south. I didn't have a particularly good sleep last night, but it didn't seem to affect my running performance.

We were targeting 5:27 per kilometre to get us in at 3 hours 50 minutes. While we were able to keep that pace for better than half of the run, by the end we were just trying to get it done. Lots of run-walk-run-walk to get through it. But we did!

Here are the splits:
5:27
5:20
5:24
5:19
5:18
5:24
5:27
5:22
5:24
5:21
5:31 (gel at water stop)
5:27
5:28
5:27
5:37
5:28
5:31
5:29
5:27
5:32
5:27
5:22
5:28
5:10 (downhill on Red Hill Valley Parkway)
5:17
5:19
5:35
6:11 (still on track overall after 28 kilometres)
7:41
6:57
6:46
6:37
5:32
6:56
6:25
7:21
5:53
6:34
7:17
6:30
6:38
6:02
5:41 pace (200 m.)

4:08:21 for an average pace of 5:51 per kilometre -- good enough for a personal best for Gayle by over 5 minutes! It was a grueling run for her, but she toughed it out, and ran the last 2 kilometres without a walk break.

Attagirl! :-)