USA Space City 10-Miler: Negative Splits

In case you were wondering, there were 746 finishers in yesterday's United Space Alliance 10 Miler, put on by On The Run. (2003 had 621 finishers while last year had 793.)

(Jay Lee and Kevin Landry do a great job in putting on events! Thank guys and your group of volunteers!)

There were 727 runners who had both of their split times recorded. Only 97 of them (13.3%) recorded a negative split. The breakdowns of negative splits by the number of minutes are as follows:

Less than a minute -- 49 (50.5%)
1:00 - 1:59 -- 10 (10.3%)
2:00 - 2:59 -- 18 (18.6%)
3:00 - 3:59 -- 11 (11.3%)
4:00 - 4:59 -- 4 (4.1%)
5:00 - 5:59 -- 5 (5.2%)
7:00 - 7:59 -- 1
13:00 - 13:59 -- 1 (Loren Neufeld, who stayed with an injured runner through 7 miles and then was encouraged to run on in)

In 10-minute time increments, here is a breakdown of the gun times of the 97 runners who recorded negative splits:

1:00 - 1:09 -- 9
1:10 - 1:19 -- 14
1:20 - 1:29 -- 15
1:30 - 1:39 -- 22
1:40 - 1:49 -- 19
1:50 - 1:59 -- 9
2:00 - 2:09 -- 5
2:20 - 2:29 -- 4

My 18:36 positive split was the 5th worst; however, the worst two (2) included a runner who needed medical attention but still finished (and the runner who accompanied him). However, I was, unfortunately, in some company of respected runners - Mark Fraser, Jack Lippincott, John Phillips and Tim Bowler - who do not often find themselves in the same situation that I was in (unless they were pacing some individuals in the back end).

The positive split time distributions are as follows:

10 minutes or more -- 57
9:00 - 9:59 -- 24
8:00 - 8:59 -- 29
7:00 - 7:59 -- 30
6:00 - 6:59 -- 38
5:00 - 5:59 -- 56
4:00 - 4:59 -- 64
3:00 - 3:59 -- 76
2:00 - 2:59 -- 79
1:00 - 1:59 -- 97
0:00 - 0:59 -- 88