Toledo Marathon -- Pulled the Plug at 16 miles...

The run was going quite well up until about 16 miles... AGAIN (just like Columbus). At that point, I could see the wheels were falling off and that I wouldn't make my BQ time, so I decided to pull the plug and get a ride back to the start. Hamstring muscles were tight although they weren't cramping. But my times were waning and I figured it would be better to try my luck at Toronto Goodlife Fitness Marathon next weekend.

Here are my splits:

04:58.0
04:49.6
04:46.5
04:44.2
04:45.7
04:46.5
04:47.8
04:51.8
04:46.4
04:48.4
04:54.5
04:45.0
04:50.4
04:48.6
04:52.1
04:48.5
04:55.2
04:47.9
04:51.4
04:52.8
04:54.5
04:52.3
04:55.7
04:56.8
05:05.5
05:25.0
02:20.0 (330 m., 7:10 pace)

Over this 26.33 km. my pace was right on track at 4:54 per km... but you can see that the last 2.33 kilometres it was starting to fall apart. Better to pull the plug while I had a chance to still run next weekend.

So, put me down as a DNF on this one!