Hi All I did the Peninsula yesterday. Is was my 3 marathon, and first one that I trained for. As I've been told, a marathon starts at 32km's, because that is where the pain sets in, mine started at 36km yesterday. I tried to run, but the legs was just dead, body felt fine, ie, didn't bonk or anything like that, legs just didn't want to go. I ended up with a 4:07, with lots of walking in the last 5 km's. I think before that, I was probably on track for a 3:50/3:55, but I am sure many said that before. So I am trying to figure out what I am doing wrong. 1. I am busy with training for the OMTOM 56km, so I always felt, building up to the 56km in just over a month from now, I might come up a little short in the marathon, as my longest run up to now has been the Bay2Bay 30km's and more recently a 28km a week earlier, this might be a reason. 2. I started with the 4 hour bus, I did feel that the pace was maybe a bit quick early on, around the 5:15-5:20 mark, but decided to stick with the growd, so it might have been a little fast out of the blocks. 3. At around 28km's a lost the bus, mainly due to the crowds from the half joining. I followed some other people from the club and think this is maybe where I had a 5km's that was say 10sec/km faster than I should have gone, can this make such a big difference. 4. When the pain/dead legs started, did I maybe just quit to soon, and can I say because I do not have the experience yet with a lot of marathons, I just had to push through, or is it maybe my mental strength not being there? Lastly, should I worry about the Oceans, I do have the big miles coming up in the next 3-4 weeks. Would appreciate some input from you guys on this.
