I love stats, so I

I love stats, so I investigated some more from my marathon.

The webpage has updated their times a bit and my chip time now reads 4:58:48 (as opposed to the 4:58:14 it said earlier). My watch read 4:58:49 and I'd just assumed that the chip would be more accurate and that I'd started my watch a bit early and stopped it a bit late. Turns out my watch is right, which I'm happy about. It would suck if my watch lost 30 seconds per 5 hours.

Anyway. My overall pace was 11:23 per mile but I went back and looked at my split times, curious to see how consistently I ran. I found a few interesting things. While I thought my most difficult miles were ~21-24, my times show that I was moving slowest from ~19-23. My fastest portion wasn't the beginning, but instead was second "quarter" of the race, from the 10k to half marathon marks.

0-5k       | 0-3.1 mi       | 34:51   | 11:14/mile
5-10k      | 3.1 - 6.2 mi   | 34:53   | 11:15/mile
10k-HALF   | 6.2 - 13.1 mi  | 1:16:13 | 11:03/mile
HALF-30k   | 13.1 - 18.6 mi | 1:02:57 | 11:27/mile
30-37k     | 18.6 - 23 mi   | 52:44   | 12:09/mile
37k-FINISH | 23 - 26.2 mi   | 37:10   | 11:25/mile
TOTAL      | 26.2 mi        | 4:58:48 | 11:23/mile