Time Breakdowns for the 2005 to 2000 LA Marathons

I crunched the numbers to find the sub-3, sub-4, and sub-5 numbers for yesterday's LA Marathon. I also included them with the 5 previous years. You can tell that 2004 was an anomaly in terms of times. The heat had a big effect. This year is more inline with previous years before 2004. However, the percentage of sub-4's were still higher in the pre-2004 races.

Next, I think it would be interesting to look at these numbers by age and sex. I'll start working on this tomorrow.

Time Breakdowns for the 2005 to 2000 LA Marathons

Year	Under 3hr	3hr to 4hr	4hr to 5hr	Over 5hr
2000	129 (0.8%)	2134 (12.5%)	5071 (29.6%)	9805 (57.2%)
2001	97 (0.6%)	2023 (12.6%)	4908 (30.5%)	9039 (56.3%)
2002	96 (0.5%)	2048 (10.9%)	5156 (27.5%)	11424 (61.0%)
2003	111 (0.6%)	1975 (11.6%)	4759 (27.8%)	10245 (59.9%)
2004	70 (0.4%)	1184 (6.1%)	4040 (20.8%)	14096 (72.7%)
2005	105 (0.5%)	1955 (9.6%)	5489 (26.9%)	12824 (62.9%)

Note, these stats are based on data from doitsports.com.

[Revision Notice: An update in these stats were made on 8:00am CST 3/8/05 due to new download of race data on 7:00pm CST 3/7/05 from doitsports.com. Refer to this post for more details.]