5-Mile Splits at Ten For Texas / USA 10-Miler
At Saturday's Ten For Texas, many, many runners - including Holden and Dave -- felt as if mile 3 was long and mile 10 was short.
This stat might confirm something was amiss -- 626 of the 758 finishers had negative splits in the last five (5) miles.
During today's United Space Alliance 10-Miler, 380 runners ran a negative split while 442 ran a positive split.
What's one ingredient of a successful racer? Consistency.
Of the 100 top finishers, 37 had a negative split. 63 had a positive and one runner didn't hit the 5-mile mat. However, the key stat is that 83 of the 99 runners (83.8%) had a variation in splits of less than a minute and 45 seconds.
Of all remaining finishers, just 334 of 724 (46.1%) were able to keep their splits in the same range.
(1:45 wasn't any magical or scientific number. I could have picked any number -and- the percentages probably would have been about the same.)
This stat might confirm something was amiss -- 626 of the 758 finishers had negative splits in the last five (5) miles.
During today's United Space Alliance 10-Miler, 380 runners ran a negative split while 442 ran a positive split.
What's one ingredient of a successful racer? Consistency.
Of the 100 top finishers, 37 had a negative split. 63 had a positive and one runner didn't hit the 5-mile mat. However, the key stat is that 83 of the 99 runners (83.8%) had a variation in splits of less than a minute and 45 seconds.
Of all remaining finishers, just 334 of 724 (46.1%) were able to keep their splits in the same range.
(1:45 wasn't any magical or scientific number. I could have picked any number -and- the percentages probably would have been about the same.)
posted by WalkSports.com | 5:02 PM
4 Comments:
Are you telling me that my 6:07 in the tenth mile was a mirage?? I was resting up for it during mile three. Oh well, it felt good on paper for a day!
Vince,
It wasn't rose colored glasses that you were looking through on that time ... but rather JoePa's thick ones!
Hopefully, they won't lose another one the rest of the way.
Jon
Good seeing you at 10 for Texas. I'd like to be able to run with more split consistency, but the negative splitting seems to suit me pretty well and allows these old legs to warm up for the latter stages.
You mean I DIDN'T run a sub-10 minute last mile, when I've only mananged to do one of those once in my life? Boo hoo hoo.
Oh, well, guess I'll have to hug tighter onto my 6 and a half minute negative split.
doug
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