Over ambitious pacing mostly I think in heat and humidity in at race they want to exceed or at least match their best performance.
At last years race I've never seen so many obviously fit people barely able to walk, let alone run! It doesn't take a huge misjudgement at some point earlier in the race to make the difference between a 3:15-20 run and a 4:00-4:30
At last years race I've never seen so many obviously fit people barely able to walk, let alone run! It doesn't take a huge misjudgement at some point earlier in the race to make the difference between a 3:15-20 run and a 4:00-4:30