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London Marathon. Slowest London and only marathon since my 1st one since my 1st marathon in Copenhagen where I really wanted to stop (for mosdt of the last 4M).

Enough downbeat stuff though. Plan was to run 1st 10M in 67-67:30 then 2nd 10M in 66:30-67:00 and speed up to run 2:54-2:57

Managed 67:20 for 1st 10 and 67:39 for 2nd 10 to reach 20M in 2:14:59 but couldn't quicken and did the last 10k in 43:21.

Last 4 miles real struggle. knew I could break 3hrs if I ran 7:15 pace. At 23M knew I needed ~7:30 pace. 24M 8:00 pace and at 25M 8:30 pace was all I needed but was still struggling just to keep going.

Passed the WJ cheering point at 800m to go and 10min miling would have down from there but I still felt awful. 200m to go and I could've walked in the sub 3 but I keep pushing on as I didn't trust my legs to move if I let them stop running.

No idea why I couldn't quicken. hydration, heat, age, too many marathons in my legs.

5k splits

20:54

20:50

21:01

20:59

20:52
21:09
21:13

21:42

10th and final sub 3

thanks to all the WJ marshalls and suporters:)

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1) - 1.02m - 6:50(6:45/m) - 116cal

2) - 1.02m - 6:48(6:40/m) - 121cal

3) - 1.01m - 6:35(6:32/m) - 118cal

4) - 1m - 6:35(6:36/m) - 117cal

5) - 0.99m - 6:36(6:39/m) - 118cal

6) - 1.03m - 6:54(6:42/m) - 121cal

7) - 1.02m - 6:47(6:39/m) - 120cal

8) - 1m - 6:37(6:38/m) - 119cal

9) - 1m - 6:46(6:46/m) - 118cal

10) - 1.02m - 6:51(6:42/m) - 121cal

11) - 0.99m - 6:38(6:40/m) - 118cal

12) - 1.01m - 6:46(6:43/m) - 119cal

13) - 1.01m - 6:46(6:40/m) - 119cal

14) - 1m - 6:41(6:40/m) - 119cal

15) - 1.01m - 6:40(6:36/m) - 117cal

16) - 1.01m - 6:53(6:48/m) - 112cal

17) - 1m - 6:51(6:49/m) - 120cal

18) - 1m - 6:47(6:46/m) - 120cal

19) - 0.97m - 6:56(7:07/m) - 121cal

20) - 1.01m - 6:42(6:37/m) - 118cal

21) - 1m - 6:50(6:49/m) - 119cal

22) - 1.02m - 6:53(6:45/m) - 120cal

23) - 1.01m - 6:57(6:52/m) - 122cal

24) - 1.02m - 6:48(6:40/m) - 99cal

25) - 1.03m - 7:14(7:03/m) - 117cal

26) - 1.02m - 7:09(7:02/m) - 122cal

27) - 0.23m - 1:30(6:30/m) - 27cal

Pace Zone Summary

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Pace Zone: 5:20-5:39/mile: 2.1%

Pace Zone: 5:40-5:59/mile: 4.7%

Pace Zone: 6:00-6:19/mile: 12.3%

Pace Zone: 6:20-6:39/mile: 22.5%

Pace Zone: 6:40-6:59/mile: 23.5%

Pace Zone: 7:00-7:19/mile: 16.7%

Pace Zone: 7:20-7:39/mile: 7%

Pace Zone: 7:40-7:59/mile: 2.7%

Pace Zone: 8:00-8:19/mile: 1.8%