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The Gallant Failure Thread

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Wriggling Snake Apr 2019 2:14pm, 7 Apr 2019 22,076 posts	Quote Pin Wriggling Snake I ran a race on Thursday, 4 miles, relatively flat. I aimed for 28 mins, 70.6% WAVA. I achieved 28.16, 69.99% WAVA. I think I messed up just a touch, even though I had a good 'race'. You can read about it here:- fetcheveryone.com/blog/26233 I have form, 5k pb 21.01, 10k pb 44.05, HM pb 1:39.05, it's all mental approach right? Any similar races, do you just miss like this?
Velociraptor Apr 2019 2:42pm, 7 Apr 2019 41,173 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor For several years I had a ha;f marathon PB of 2:00:07. I'd slowed down a bit a mile or so from the finish when I passed someone I knew who was struggling and gave them some motivational chat. Wouldn't have happened in the age of GPS.
LindsD Apr 2019 7:45am, 8 Apr 2019 27,125 posts	Quote Pin LindsD My 5k PB is 26.06 and I'm close to a sub 2 half but unlikely to ever get there....also close to 60% wava. Ugh.
Wriggling Snake Apr 2019 8:14am, 8 Apr 2019 22,085 posts	Quote Pin Wriggling Snake I started to try to think of something seconds in distance. So 26.06 is 3.2m per second, 19.2m further, over 5000m or 19.2 over 26 minutes it's like 80cm a minute. I helped a Marple runner just take 35 minutes off of her Marathon time, all we changed was one session every two weeks where she did some glute exercises during a run (it was an easy 400m/ marathon paced 400m, glute exercises for about 45 minutes), and added 3 miles or so, into her long runs that were at marathon pace. You can do exactly that sort of thing for a Half.
HappyG(rrr) Apr 2019 8:26am, 8 Apr 2019 31,098 posts	Quote Pin HappyG(rrr) I saw a post on the Sub 3 group on FB from this weekend's Manchester marathon a guy got 3:00:01. Omg! Poor guy. And yet, what a fab time. I don't consider these a failure though. Annoying numbers, but great performance overall (including your very-nearly-70% WAVA)! G
Garfield Apr 2019 2:16pm, 8 Apr 2019 10,319 posts	Quote Pin Garfield That reminds me of the Standard Chartered City Race in London that I ran several years running, desperately trying to get a sub-30 5k... It starts with a downhill (that we run back up again to the finish, which is a total killer), wanders around the City, then heads back up that hill. One year, I pushed just too hard throughout and ran out of steam in the last 400m, missing a pb by 2 seconds!!
GordonG Apr 2019 2:40pm, 8 Apr 2019 7,703 posts	Quote Pin GordonG years ago i aimed at a 10K PB to go sub-50. i'd committed every mile marker to memory and hit every one of them perfectly. as i hit the 6 mile mark, it was only then that i remembered that i still had that 0.2 to do... missed out by 27 seconds..
HappyG(rrr) Apr 2019 3:05pm, 8 Apr 2019 31,110 posts	Quote Pin HappyG(rrr) 27 seconds for 0.2 mile is pretty impressive Gordon - 2:15 min / mile pace. Nice! G
GordonG Apr 2019 3:54pm, 8 Apr 2019 7,704 posts	Quote Pin GordonG Hmmmm then in hindsight I must have been a nice bit inside 50 mins at the 6 mile marker, suspect I didn't do the final 321.9 metres in just the 27s
Garfield Apr 2019 8:09pm, 8 Apr 2019 10,320 posts	Quote Pin Garfield And another year for the Standard Chartered City Race...was chatting with my speedy friend, ended up starting in the WRONG area with the speedy folk, so ended up running 8:36 (looked down and thought that I'm going to die if I keep this up!!!), 9:36, 10:?? and died at the end!! There was a point where I was keeping up with them...so perhaps I should have ignored my Garmin for the entire time, run to feel and gone with the flow... Who knows what might have happened?