It's been a few days since a finished the marathon at a personal best 4 h 18 min 50 s. It all went well. I had a terrible nights sleep before the race and I feared that the lack of sleep would ruin my race, but actually it didn't. I managed to consentrate on the tasks as planned and managed to keep a steady pace through the race. My average speed was 6,09 min/km. The start was a bit challenging given the amount of participants. After about 5 km it got sorted out. My average speed the first 5 k was 6,16 min/km. The next 5km up to 10 k i increased my average speed to 5,52 min/km. I had been standing in line in the start area for about one and a half hour. I guees I should have been more eager to keep warm and to warm up. All in all I should think that my first 5 k was a warm up. Well, after having moving out of the city center we were heading towards it again and we were in centro storico after 15 k heading towards the Vatican. My average speed on this interval was 6,0 min/km. I felt good and eager to carry on. Moving on we were headin towards the Vatican and gaining some height. All the same I managed to keep up pace in spite of a brief visit to the toilette-I guess I spend some 3 minutes there. Nothing to mention at all. Anyhow I had an increase in average speed and noted 6,32 min km. Eager to get back in the race after that I increased my speed a bit as we were heading north and out of the city again. By 25 km I had an average speed the last 4 k of 5,54 min/km. Working our way back to the city center again eventually I did manage to keep an average speed of 6,18 min/km. By now I were beginning to notice that I've been running some 30 km. I was wondering about if the the speed was a bit high, but I decided to keep it up and managed to arrive 35 km at an average speed the last 5 k at 6,06 min/km. Only 7 km to go then. The next 5 km up till 40 km was in centro storico and the pavement was not asphalt but stone bricks. Average speed was down that 5 k till 6,12 min/km. With the final line just around the corner I deciced to get mean towards myself and increased the speed and had an average speed the last distance of 5,48 min/km. I had a good feeling as I was crossing the finish line after 4h 18 min 50 s-new personal best!
As the record down below shows I managed to execute a negative split.
Split | Time | min/Km | Delta | min/Km | RealTime |
Km 5 - Via Ostiense | 0:31:21 | 6,16 | 0:31:21 | 6,16 | 0:30:31 |
Km 10 - L. Testaccio | 1:00:45 | 6,04 | 0:29:24 | 5,52 | 0:59:54 |
Km 15 - L. Marzio | 1:30:47 | 6,03 | 0:30:02 | 6,00 | 1:29:57 |
Km 21,097 - L. Vittoria | 2:10:42 | 6,11 | 0:39:55 | 6,32 | 2:09:51 |
Km 25 - Foro Italico | 2:33:46 | 6,09 | 0:23:04 | 5,54 | 2:32:55 |
Km 30 - L. Thaon di Revel | 3:05:21 | 6,10 | 0:31:35 | 6,18 | 3:04:31 |
Km 35 - Largo Argentina | 3:35:53 | 6,10 | 0:30:32 | 6,06 | 3:35:03 |
Km 40 - Via Petroselli | 4:06:56 | 6,10 | 0:31:03 | 6,12 | 4:06:05 |
Arrivo | 4:19:42 | 6,09 | 0:12:46 | 5,48 | 4:18:51 |
