Devin B. ran: I led the 4:15 pace g...

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  • 26 miles
  • 04:14 time
  • 09:35 pace
  • 3013 calories
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  • 2024 ft climb
  • 164 max hr
  • 149 avg hr
    • Currently /5 Effort.
    effort /5
 
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great 2012 Houston Marathon 26.47 mi 04:14 09:35 pace

I led the 4:15 pace group. I said from the beginning that my plan was to have a party for four hours and fifteen minutes. This was mostly true. The first 3:50 were a party and the last 25 minutes were kind of a weak party because everyone was pretty tired, but there was still lots of encouragement, cheering, and acting somewhat foolish to raise peoples' spirits. This was my first time pacing and while the prospect of a 4:15 marathon didn't make me particularly nervous, I knew I would have folks counting on me to help them reach their goals and I didn't know how hard it would be to come in right on time. The wrist band with time splits helped a lot and every mile I would call out how far off the pace we were (10 seconds ahead, 5 seconds behind) it was always very close and my runners really seemed to appreciate knowing we were on schedule. Once or twice we were 30 or 40 seconds ahead so we rewarded ourselves with extended walks through water stations. That also went over well.

I really wanted to work hard to keep my runners entertained and thinking about anything other than the miles so I played tour guide for several out-of-towners. "Coming up on the left is the Museum of fine arts, Hermann Park, and our world famous medical center district." "Here's the Bolivian consulate and this neighborhood is known as West University and the Rice Village" "The Westpark overpass is really the biggest 'hill' we have on the whole course and now it's behind us!" "Coming up on the right at this church is there you can sometimes find former president George Bush Sr greeting the runners. Oh look, he's here again today!" and then I did some silly stuff every now and again like running backwards to face the runners for a few seconds and yelling out "who is still with me?" and then turning my visor upside down after mile 20 like a rally cap.

When it was all said and done, I was extremely pleased with the results of my hard work. We crossed the finish line at 4:14:16 which I feel pretty darn good about. Right there in the finisher's chute, I had three or four people shake my hand and thank me for bringing them in. When I got home and looked at my splits, they are probably the most even splits I've ever run in any race of any distance.

4 months ago via Garmin

Calories
3013
  • Chio
    Chio You're Funny
    Chio You're Funny:

    what a cool way to run a marathon! sounds like you were a rockin' pacer!

    4 months ago