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I'm a mid-to-the back of the pack runner who probably enjoys promoting runners more than I do running myself ... I've completed 21 marathons (with a 4:47:32 PR! in Austin) and 52 half marathons (with a 2:09:58 PR! in Oregon) since November 2003 ... I've done a marathon in 12 states, half marathon in 23 and an event in 30 states and one Canadian province ... I have a 13-year-old daughter, Waverly Nicole, who completed her first half marathon in January 2006, made only two B's each of the last two years, was the only sixth grader to sing a solo (Carrie Underwood's Don't Forget To Remember Me) in their choir program (adding Taylor Swift's Tim McGraw in '08) and scored a 19 on the ACT in December 2007 as a seventh grader ... Waverly and I are members of the following clubs -- the Seven Hills Running Club, HARRA and The Woodlands Running Club ... I'm Marathon Maniac #308 ... I edit HARRA's Footprints in Inside Texas Running and write a column for Runner Triathlete News called, "Talking the Talk" ... I'm also the running columnist for the Courier of Montgomery County ... I'm a three-time winner of TAPPS' Sportswriter of the Year Award as well as TABC's Golden Hoops Award.

Monday, October 03, 2005

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

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