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Jordan, congratulations for your impressive race and thank you very much for sharing!
My question: do you have an estimation of the relative intensity you run the marathon wrt your threshold pace or another benchmark intensity ?
I think a lot of it is what feels right. I had a plan for pace that I worked out with my coach. It's hard to say exactly that is was based of XYZ marker. I think at some point you just have run enough that you get a bit of a feel for what's possible in the scenario. Make sure you are getting your calories in. I don't do it as "X%" of a certain pace, though I'd wager it probably works out close to the same target pace for cycling 75% of FTP (which is usually somewhere between 5km - 10km pace) +/- 5% depending on skill and duration (e.g. if you are ~4 hours and finishing ~11 hours you are going to run relatively slower than someone running ~3 hours and finishing ~9hours).
You should not WANT to do the last 13miles, but you should feel ABLE. I guess that's sort of how I look at it. And really, if you can run a good last 10km, you've paced appropriately.
Interesting comments, thanks!
My question was more oriented to the actual outcome related to your running fitness, IOW, what was your FT-Pace (or another run performance benchmark you like to use) leading to the race
to calculate the relative intensity, if you don't mind to share, off course.
Ale Martinez
www.amtriathlon.com