tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106681012012-01-06T20:10:15.095-08:00I've always been interested in running statistics. So I decided to create this site to share these. I'll be putting the official race data through custom made programs to find out all types if interesting things. Feel free to leave a comment about any interesting stats that you would like to see.Kennoreply@blogger.comBlogger1701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10668101.post-79749258519959579962011-02-20T14:52:00.000-08:002011-02-20T14:59:03.334-08:00

The 2011 Austin Marathon was held today, and since part of the course was close to my apartment, I decided to walk over there and watch. Instead of just standing, I wanted to get some exercise. So I walked a good portion of the course.I planned my walk to see as much of the lead runners as possible. With the marathon being a loop, that made it much easier.Back in the days of Motorola and

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The 2010 Austin Marathon course came within a couple of miles from my apartment. So I walked over to the course between mile 4 and 5 at the corner of Oltorf and 1st Street.A few observations about the race:It was perfect weather: clear, cool and calm. Temperature at 8:00am was about 44 deg FDon't expect to cross the race path from the 3-hr pace and slower. It was 2 to 3 lanes of runners as far

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Last Monday the 113th Boston Marathon took place. As is common, Kenyans and Ethiopians did well with 8 of the top 10 men and 6 of the top 10 women. One thing I found interesting was that both an American man and woman took third place. The woman, Kara Goucher, took third place with a finish time of 2:32:25 (only 9 seconds behind first place). Ryan Hall finished third with a time of 2:09:40 which

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Lance wasn't able to match his PR from the New York Marathon in November, but he still had a very respectable Boston Marathon time of 2:50:58. According to this Runner's World article the hills took their toll. Lance also admitted he didn't put in the training he had hoped. Below are the splits from his 3 marathons: Boston 08 NY 07 NY 065k 0:20:11 0:20:01 0:20:5810k

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An injury may make it tough for Lance tomorrow at the Boston Marathon. According to this Boston Globe interview, Lance cut his foot while training in Hawaii. We'll see how much impact this will have. His last race appears to have been the Scotland 10K in New York City on March 30th. In a Runner's World interview, Lance mentioned he was tentatively planning to run a half-marathon at the Austin

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The weather looks good for Monday's Boston Marathon. The forecast is for a low of 40°F, a high of 59°F and partly cloudy skies. One interesting pre-race article is from the Boston Globe. It reports on the history of Kenyan domination at the Boston Marathons. Their domination also extends to the other major marathons. Here's an example of how dominating they have been:Last year, 68 Kenyan

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In a Runner's World interview Lance Armstrong talks about his training and his marathon goals. He's planning to run his first Boston Marathon on April 21st, and he's hoping to at least match the finish time he had in last November's New York Marathon (mid-2:40s). Then he's planning to run his third New York City Marathon in November with a time in the low 2:30s.In the interview, Lance mentioned

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As I mentioned in my last post, Lance Armstrong is planning to run the Boston Marathon in April to raise money for his foundation. In that post I looked at Lance's performances in the 2006 and 2007 New York City Marathons. Lance made a very substantial improvement to his marathon time in 2007. He took almost 13 minutes off his time to finish with a time of 2:46:43.How Many Sub-3 Runners Can Take

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Two weeks ago it was announced that Lance Armstrong is planning to run the Boston Marathon in April to raise money for his foundation. I thought this would be a good time for another post looking at Armstrong's marathon history. It has been a while since my last post which looked at the results of the 2006 New York Marathon. That was the first marathon that Armstrong ran since his Tour de France

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Those who have run a marathon in under three hours should consider what the 7-time Tour de France Champion, Lance Armstrong, said about his experience in today's New York City Marathon:For the level of conditioning I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I've ever done. Even the worst days on the Tours, nothing was as hard as that and nothing left me feeling the way that I

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I'm glad Robert Cheruiyot fell forward yesterday as he went past the finish line of yesterday's Chicago Marathon. His momentum carried him forward enough so he won the marathon in one of the most bizarre marathon endings that I've seen. If he had fallen a second earlier, he may not have even finished. Running 26.2 miles and collapsing feet from the finish line has to be an incredibly unlucky

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Two Kenyans won first and second place at today's Boston Marathon, but Americans took the next 3 spots and 5 American men finished in the top 10. In last year's race, only two American men made it to the top 10. According to the Boston.com, no American man has won since Greg Meyer in 1983, and 12 times since then, there have been no Americans in the top 10.Alan Culpepper came in fourth last year

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The world's most famous marathon is today at Boston. The current temperature there is 48°F and partly cloudy. The high is expected to be in the mid 50s. Looks like perfect weather. Live race day coverage is available at the Boston Marathon's home page. Runner's World has a whole section of their site dedicated to the race.Today's weather looks better than the last two years. From my post last

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If the last Sunday's Capitol 10K were to be run tomorrow, we would have had much better race conditions. A cold front moved in this morning and brought the temperatures down into the 50's. You can see from the tables below that the weather for the Cap10K often is either cool or warm. We've had two warm races and two cool races in the last 4 years. For both times it has been warm, you can see how

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Last year's men's winner, Bernard Manirakiza, was on pace to beat his last year's time (30:06) and the course record (29:49) when he collapsed from heat exhaustion at mile 6. After an hour in the medical tent, Manirakiza recovered. The men's winner yesterday was Jacob Rotich with a time of 32:03. The women's winner was a 41-year-old Russian, Albina Gallyamova, who finished with a time of 34:24.

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The weather was ideal for yesterday's LA Marathon. Temperature in Downtown LA was 53°F at 8:47am yesterday with clear skies and calm winds. This must have helped the runners. Both the men and women's course records were broken. A woman won the Battle-of-the-Sexes Challenge. Lidiya Grigoryeva of Russia broke the women's course record with a time of 2:25:10. She finished 16 seconds before the men's

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The 21st LA Marathon will be held this Sunday, March 19th. I did several posts last year on the race and included a bunch of stats. According to runningusa.org, the LA Marathon was the 4th largest marathon in the US in 2004 with a total of 19452 finishers. As expected, the New York City Marathon and the Chicago Marathon were one and two. I didn't know the Honolulu Marathon was number three with

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Earlier this week I put together the stats for the men's marathon (see post). Now I'll post the stats for the women.Marathon Race IssuesBefore going into the women stats, I should mention that there were a few problems in the race that may have skewed the times. One significant issue is that not all start times were captured. This caused many runners to have chip times that equaled the gun times.

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The temperatures were around 30°F with some frozen drizzle, but the marathon went on as planned except for a 30 minute delay. According to this RunTex news article, there were many PRs. The winner for the men was Mindi Pukstas of Lithuania with a personal record time of 2:13:43. He just finished ahead of Abebe Yimer of Ethiopia who had a time of 2:13:52 which was a PR by more than 4 minutes.The

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There's going to be one big difference between tomorrow's Freescale Austin Marathon and last year's marathon: the weather.The temperature at last year's marathon was way above average. The temperature at the start of the race as measured at the airport was 62°F with 96% humidity. At around 10:00am the temperature was 68°F and 84% humidity. At the race, I think it was even warmer since I remember

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The Mardi Gras Marathon was run yesterday in New Orleans. It was the first major athletic event in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. This AP article has some descriptions from a runner's viewpoint. The race started in the French Quarters which survived Katrina and subsequent flooding without much damage. After 7 miles, the author noted how the damage became more apparent with street after

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The running conditions were perfect yesterday morning for the 3M Half Marathon in Austin, Texas. It was a clear and calm morning with a temperature at the start of the race of 45°F. However, it didn't help enough to allow for new course records. The Men's winner, Kenya's Nicodemus Malakan, finished 1:01:45 which was 29 seconds slower than the 1:01:16 course record. The women's winner was Soon Duk

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Last Sunday (November 20, 2005) the Philadelphia Marathon was held. There's an interesting story about the female winner, Emily Kroshus, at philly.com. This Philadelphia resident had run two previous marathons (one of them was last year's New York City Marathon). In both of those races she had to bow out early. Everything came together Sunday, and Kroshus won the women's race with a time of 2:43:

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I'm glad to see some excitement yesterday at the New York city Marathon. Here's a quote from the Runner's World summary of the race:Tergat, the world-record holder in the marathon, outleaned Hendrick Ramaala at the finish line in the closest, most dramatic finish ever in a major marathon competition.Paul Tergat finished with a time of 2:09:30. I also found some interesting facts about Tergat from

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I've put together the stats for the top 2000 runners in yesterday's Chicago Marathon. The top 3 men and top 2 women finished close and made it an exciting race. Here are excerpts from Reuters:Kenyan Felix Limo won the Chicago Marathon on Sunday in his debut appearance on the course, beating defending champion and compatriot Evans Rutto.The 25-year-old Limo, who led a Kenyan clean sweep in a time

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The Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon was held last Sunday (9/25/05). Here's a piece of the race summary from the marathon's website:Despite humid conditions, Kenyan Simon Bor ran 2:11:57 to win the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon this morning, taking almost 3 minutes off the course record of 2:14:51, set last year in one of North America's most rapidly-growing new marathons.Anastasia

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The Quad Cities Marathon last Sunday had an unfortunate problem: two trains interrupted the race for several runners. The marathon course happened to cross some railroad tracks, and the train officials failed to cooperate with the race officials. Apparently, this frustrated the race director so much that he actually parked his pace truck on the tracks that went across the course at around mile 22

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The big story for last Sunday's Berlin Marathon was Japan's Mizuki Noguchi, the reigning Olympic champion. She broke the women's course record with a time of 2:19:12. She looks like Japan's version of Paula Radcliffe. According to Runners World Magazine, 15 million Japanese viewers tuned in to watch television coverage of the Berlin Marathon. The fastest male runner was the Kenyan Philip Manyim

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It is good to see that the Mardi Gras Marathon is being planned for February 5th, 2006. The latest updates are available at the Marathon's website. Hopefully, New Orleans will be able to avoid any damage from Hurricane Rita and the race will be able to be run as planned. As reported by the website, race management is working out course details and overall race logistics with city officials.The

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The Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon was held this morning in Virginia Beach, VA. A men's course record was set by James Mwangi of Kenya with a time of 1:00:42 (more info, RunnersWeb). The weather was pretty good for a summer weekend. The temperature at the start of the race was 64°F. There were 15.5K timed finishers in this race. 20K entrants had registered. I wonder if the hurricane disaster

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The weather added another challenge to the 7,815-foot climb of last Saturday's Pikes Peak Ascent. There's a first hand description of the weather at this RunTX forum thread. A strong storm with lightning, hail, and snow struck the mountain in the late morning. Fortunately, it was late enough that it didn't seem to affect most of the runners during the race. However, the runners were stuck in the

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The 13.32 mile Pikes Peak Ascent is this Saturday and the Pikes Peak Marathon is Sunday. The Pikes Peak Ascent starts at an elevation of 6,295 feet. At the end, the elevation is 14,110 feet on top of Pikes Peak. That's a net elevation gain of 7,815 feet. According to Wikipedia the mountain is one of the 54 peaks in Colorado with a summit over 14,000 feet (known as Fourteener). California has 12

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This STLtoday.com article looks into the growing popularity of marathons. It used to be only the super fit would consider running a marathon. Now it seems like everybody wants to take the challenge. It's now attracting a lot of running newbies who would probably be better off with shorter races.Some interesting stats from this article:Someone training for a marathon has a 40 percent to 60 percent

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Gilbert Okari and Lornah Kiplagat did it again. One week after winning the Beach to Beacon 10K in Maine, they won yesterday's Falmouth 7-mile race. Okari finished with a time of 31:59 and Lornah finished with 36:09. Both received $11K in prize money for the win (more, boston.com).Average low temperatures are in the mid 60s. But yesterday, it was way above average. The temperature at 9:55am was 79

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The 33rd SBLI Falmouth Road Race will be held this Sunday (8/14) in Falmouth Massachusetts. There's a couple of things that caught my eye about this race. First, it's an odd distance of 7 miles which is 11.26km. Those 7 miles should be scenic for the runners as they run along the coast.The other thing that caught my eye was the prize purse of $112,000 which is claimed to be America's largest

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I've put together the stats for the top 500 finishers. I would have liked to include more but the results database only shows 10 finishers at a time.Most of the top men seem to be in their 20s. This was the same as Atlanta's Peachtree 10K. The top 2 men came from their 20s. For the top 500 men, those in their 20s had a median time of 38:21 and a mean time of 37:02. This is about two minutes

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A Wired News article describes the research that went into Nike's latest line of running shoes called Nike Free. These are the shoes that are designed to make you feel like you're running barefoot. The barefoot running concept didn't catch on at Nike all too well (kind of goes against the grain of a shoe company.) But the Nike Designers came out with something that supposedly combines the best of

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The TD Banknorth Beach to Beacon 10K race was held last Saturday (8/6) at Cape Elizabeth Maine (near Portland). Not too many places in the US are suitable for a running race in August. Being far north and on the coast, Maine is one exception. Portland's August 6th average low is 59°F and average high is 79°F. However, last Saturday was above average. Race time temperature at Portland was 73°F

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Since it's mid summer without many road races taking place, I thought it would be a good time to look at Running USA's 2004 road race stats. Running USA has published a series of articles on 2004 road race stats. It also has added 2004 races to its database of the largest US races by distance.Part 1 looks at the numbers and percentages of runners in 2004 based on a sports participation study. It

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The third annual International Association of Ultrarunners' 24 Hour World Challenge was held last weekend (July 16-17) in Austria. This runningusa.org article has a good race summary. Even with Dean Karnazes skipping Badwater and running in this race, the US men's team was only able to come in 6th. The US women did better with a third place finish, and that was without Pam Reed who had just won

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Lance Armstrong did it again with his seventh Tour de France victory. Congratulations Lance! This Yahoo article has some interesting history of Lance's main competitors in the last 7 Tours. It said that only three men seriously challenged his domination - Italian climber Marco Pantani, Basque rider Joseba Beloki and Ullrich. Pantani had given Lance a run for his money in 2000. Sad to read that

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Although the top four finishers were men this year, looking at both the mean and the median, the women were faster. There were a total of 67 finishers (54 men and 13 women) and 14 who didn't finish. The 54 men had a mean finish time of 44:43:45 and a median of 44:24:33. The 13 women had a mean finish time of 43:19:46 and a median of 41:31:15.There has long been speculation that women may have an

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I've heard that a good rule of thumb is to plan for one day of recovery time for every mile of a race. So for a marathon you would plan for 26 days of recovery after the race before your next race.Perhaps this rule doesn't apply to some ultramarathoners. Scott Jurek won the Badwater Ultramarathon with a course record time of 24:36:08. This broke the record of 25:09 set by Anatoli Kruglikov in

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The Badwater Ultramarathon is underway. It's kind of strange tracking a running race that lasts more than one day. Badwater is providing a webcast of the runners' splits. The two leaders finished mile 90 at the same time (16:32:00). One is Ferg Hawke who took second last year (just about 8 minutes behind Dean Karnazes). The other is a newcomer to Badwater, Scott Jurek. However, he's a pretty

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The 135 mile Badwater Ultramarathon begins today. That's a distance of over 5 marathons. It starts in Death Valley at an elevation of 280 feet below sealevel and ends at Mt. Whitney Portals at an elevation of 8360 feet above sealevel. I don't know how you could create a tougher race.Dean KarnazesLast year's winner and famous ultramarathoner, Dean Karnazes, won't be in the race. He's skipping

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The first Silicon Labs Marathon Relay was held on the 4th last Monday here in Austin Texas. Silicon Labs is a somewhat new high tech company based in Austin. It seems they were wanting to be a sponsor of some race. With so many races already in place in Austin, it's not easy to start something new on a day that won't conflict with another race.I think Silicon Labs made a good choice with the

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I was disappointed to learn that John Korir couldn't compete yesterday at the Peachtree 10K due to visa problems. The men's winner was Gilbert Okari of Kenya who won with a time of 28:18. Last two times Korir had run the Peachtree he had 28:09 and 28:10. So he could have won it yesterday and have taken the triple crown of the PRRO.On the women's side, Lornah Kiplagat won her fourth Peachtree with

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Can John Korir win next Monday's Peachtree 10K to claim the Professional Road Racing Organization's (PRRO) Triple Crown? The PRRO Circuit is a nationwide series of road racing events that attracts elite runners from around the world. John Korir is an elite Kenyan runner who won the first two legs of the Triple Crown (Credit Union Cherry Blossom 10 Mile in Washington, DC in April and the Lilac

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Using the same method as I did yesterday for the men, I ran my stats on the open and masters women in the 2004 Peachtree 10K. All of the open and masters women came out to 1017 so instead of stopping at 1000, I just included them all.One thing caught my eye in the masters division. Carmen Troncoso of my home city of Austin took fourth place with a time of 35:29. She often runs local races and was

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I thought it would be interesting to look at the top 1000 men from last year's Peachtree 10K. The Peachtree's results page wasn't in the ideal format. It broke up the men into the open and masters category. In the combined results, it didn't list gender. So for simplicity, I took the top 500 from both the open and masters men. This isn't really the top 1000, but it should be close.There were 17

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Next Monday, July 4th, the US's largest 10K, the Peachtree 10K, will take place in Atlanta Georgia. This race's history goes back to 1970 when it started with 110 runners. By 1974 there were 765 finishers, 6500 runners in 1977, over 20000 in 1979, and in 1980 they decided to limit the race to 25000. It stayed that way through the 80's and the race was having to close its registration earlier and

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Last Sunday (6/19/05) the Kona Marathon and Half Marathon were held on the Big Island of Hawaii. It's a small event with each race having around 650 runners.One interesting stat for this marathon was that there were twice the number of women runners as men (420 to 202 ratio of 2.08). Perhaps too many men wanted to relax on Father's Day. A similar ratio also occurred for the half (485 to 182).

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About an hour before the Grandma's Marathon, they started the Garry Bjorklunk Half Marathon at 6:30am last Saturday (6/18/05). The half marathon is run on the second half of the marathon course. I like how they do this. That means all the half marathon runners will be able to watch the full marathon winners cross the finish line.This was the 29th Grandma's Marathon and the half has been going on

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Running a consistent pace throughout a marathon is much easier said than done. I've looked at the first and second half splits of last Saturday's Grandma's Marathon in Duluth Minnesota. Only about 22% of the runners were able to keep their first and second half times within 5 minutes of each other. About 75% ran the second half over 5 minutes slower. Only about 10% of the runners ran the second

Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10668101.post-1119358998712438802005-06-21T06:02:00.000-07:002005-06-21T06:03:18.743-07:00

I've put together the stats for last Saturday's Grandma's Marathon. The overall average chip time that I calculated was 4:19:05. The 4:22:28 time that I mentioned in my previous post was from a news article. I suppose this could be gun time.Out of the 6885 finishers, 63% were males. The 20s trend continues. The largest age group for women are the 20s. There're even more women finishers in their

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The Grandma's Marathon took place last Saturday (6/18/05) in Duluth Minnesota. This marathon was listed by runningusa.org as the 11th biggest marathon in the country in 2003. Last Saturday there were 6885 finishers with an average time of 4:22:28.Duluth Minnesota seems like a good place for a June marathon. Race day temperatures have been pretty nice in its history. In 2004 it was 53° at the

Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10668101.post-1119039436379083442005-06-17T13:05:00.000-07:002005-06-17T13:17:16.393-07:00

How does Lance do it? He's the six-time Grand Champion of the Tour de France which was done after coming back from advanced cancer. He's currently preparing for his last Tour de France which will start July 2nd. A scientist from University of Texas, Dr. Edward Coyle has measured the physiological changes in Lance since he was 20 years old. This month he has published a scientific paper about

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The San Diego Coca-Cola Zero Rock 'n' Roll Marathon was held last Sunday (6/5/05). In 2003, this was the nation's 6th largest marathon. There were a few things that I found interesting about the men's winner, Kenyan Christopher Cheboiboch. First, it was his third time he had run this marathon. The first was way back in 1998 in which he finished second. The other time was 2000 when he finished

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A small 8K race was held here in Austin last Saturday (6/4/05) called the News 8 - 8K. The Austin Cable News Channel 8 sponspors the event which started at 8:08am last Saturday. The men's winner, Gilbert Tuhabonye, had a time of 25:47. He had hoped to break 25:00 but it was particularly warm and humid last Saturday with race time temperature of 77°F and humidity of 90%.Gilbert Tuhabonye is a

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With an elevation of around 5300 feet, the Bolder Boulder 10K may provide some insights into how high altitude effects running. Before crunching the numbers, I first did some research.I found this useful CoolRunning thread in which a runner asked about what difference he might experience when running the Johannesburg marathon which is at a 6000ft elevation. The replies gave some factors to

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The US women did well in yesterday's Bolder Boulder 10K. Elva Dryer of Albuquerque, NM won with a time of 32:51 and the US women won the team event. The second place winner was Merima Hashim of Ethiopia. She finished with a time of 33:17. One thing I found interesting was that Hashim had run the night before at the Payton Jordan Invitational in Palo Alto, CA. Her finish time for that 10K event

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The Bolder Boulder 10K (the nation's second largest 10K) will be held this Memorial Day (5/30/05) at Boulder Colorado. I like how they make the race into a whole day activity. The non-professional runners start early and finish at Folsom Field Stadium. After they finish, there's a Memorial Day tribute with sky divers and military flyovers. And finally, everyone gets to watch the professional

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For any marathon runners who are Packers fans, this race is for you. Runners of all the races got to run a lap around Lambeau Field in the last mile. For half marathon runners, you get to finish at the same place as the marathon runners. That meant if you were able to finish the half before about 2:15, you got to see the marathon winners.The only problem about having the half and the full

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I received some good input on my last post about my observation that women seem to slow down more than men as they get older. One important factor is the number of walkers who may participate. If there are more older women walkers, this could explain the larger female slowdown. Another comment suggested looking at the top 10 in each age category. That seemed like a good way to reduce the effects

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I've put together the stats for all of three of last Sunday's races. Below are some observations.Women Slow Down More with Age?The stats suggest women slow down with age more than men. There are likely other factors, but the stats are interesting. For the marathon the mean time of women in their twenties was 4:16:55. This increased to 4:32:40 for the thirties age group and 4:34:12 for the forties

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I'm still working on the stats for last Sunday's Cleveland Marathon and 10K. Before I post the full stats, I thought I would post stats on the Age-Graded results. One thing nice about the Cleveland's results is that they provided the Age-Graded percentages for each runner. The Age-Graded (AG) percentages are suppose to provide an age and gender independent way to compare performances. So I

Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10668101.post-1116894183274597762005-05-23T17:19:00.000-07:002005-05-23T17:23:03.280-07:00

I have some more information regarding Donna Palisca, the women's winner of yesterday's Cleveland Marathon. Her coach provided lots of details at this RunTex forum thread. He also corrected several things which the Cleveland paper got wrong. For example, she had run over 15 miles several times. Also, her decision to run the full marathon was made about 6 weeks ago, not last Saturday. Nevertheless

Kennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10668101.post-1116857433078784632005-05-23T06:44:00.000-07:002005-05-23T07:10:33.083-07:00

Donna Palisca not only ran her first marathon yesterday but also won her first marathon. She finished with a time of 2:54:53 at yesterday's Cleveland Marathon, almost five minutes ahead of the second place woman. According to the Plain Dealer, Palisca had never run more than 15 miles on a given day. She had planned to run the half marathon, but changed her mind on Saturday. However, she's not

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Last Saturday's (5/14/05) Queens Half-Marathon didn't get much national attention compared to the races like the San Francisco's Bay to Breakers 12K or the River Bank 25K, but one thing I like about it is that the New York Road Runners club has done an excellent job at archiving race results. This Half is just one of many races that they organize, and all of their races have extensive archives.

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DeReuck's StatsThe standout of last Saturday's (5/14/05) Firth Third River Bank Run was with the women. Colleen DeReuck, 41, broke the the world masters record with a time of 1:25:15. It was the second fastest 25K ever by an American woman of any age. It was the third fastest women's time in the event's 28-year history. It was over 1.5 minute faster than her nearest competitor (Albina Ivanova, 27

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I received some good comments in my previous post. One suggested that I include the 2000 results which was a particularly warm day. So I did some more work and added in not only 2000 results, but also 1999 and 1998.The temperature in 2000 was indeed warm. About 1hr into the race (9:55am), the temperature was about 76°F. This provides the much needed 70°+ race data. Unfortunately, 1999 and 1998

Kennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10668101.post-1115993450048599922005-05-13T07:07:00.000-07:002005-05-13T07:14:13.016-07:00

How do you modify your pace with changing temperatures? If you can run a half-marathon in 2:00 when it's 60°F, what should your pace be if it's 70°F? That's the question I'm investigating.Indianapolis 500 Festival Mini-MarathonsI've started with the half-marathon since I've been working on the stats of last Saturday's Indianapolis Half-Marathon. This seemed to be a good starting point for this

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USA Today had an article on ultramarathons. The article covers last weekend's Massanutten Mt. Trails 100 Mile Run. But in addition to the details of this race, it also looks into the sport of ultramarathons.It mentions that ultras appeal to the "frustrated endurance crowd" who look at marathons as nothing special. From the article:Given that everyone from Oprah Winfrey to your mother's dentist

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I found 8141 repeat runners in last Saturday's Indianapolis Mini-Marathon who had also run in last year's race. That's about a third of the 25028 finishers. Out of these repeat runners, 56% ran faster.In 2004, there were 7673 repeat runners who had also run in 2003. That was about 39% of the 19577 runners. Out of these repeat runners, only 37% ran faster. It can be seen that the high temperature

Kennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10668101.post-1115650338518472382005-05-09T07:47:00.000-07:002005-05-09T07:52:18.703-07:00

The country's largest half marathon took place last Saturday (5/7/05). The OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon had 25028 finishers (12418 males, 12610 females).Wesley Ochoro, of Kenya, won the men's division with a time of 1:03:31. He's the same guy who was misdirected in Mesa, AZ half-marathon last March 13. In that race he ended up running an extra 0.5 miles, but was still able to win.

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As I was posting the stats from the Flying Pig Half Marathon, I was wondering how many of these runners ran the 2004 Pig Marathon. Did more runners switch from the marathon to half marathon? Or did more runners stick with the marathon? Since this was the Flying Pig's first half marathon, there was no one who could do the opposite switch (half to full).I ran the 2005 half marathon, the 2005

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After doing some research into half marathons, I found out that this may be a good week to begin looking at half marathons since the grand daddy of them will be in Indianapolis this Saturday. It's the OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon. According to Running USA, the Indy Mini-Marathon had 22475 total finishers in 2003 which was way past its nearest rival, Rock'n' Roll Half Marathon of Virginia

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Runner's World Daily News mentioned this cool website halftorun.com. It's a site that helps members run half marathons in 25 states. It's interesting to read their reasoning behind this goal. It mentions a quote from Roy Benson of Running Times "Committed recreational runners can finish it without killing themselves in training. Serious competitors can do it well, avoiding the risks taken and the

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One thing nice about races without cash prizes is that it gives a chance for local surprises to win. That was the case last Sunday (5/1/05) in Cincinnati's Flying Pig Marathon. For the women, the first-timer, Alison Bedingfield of Cincinnati, won with a time of 3:03:52. Her longest-ever run was 22 miles in training last month. She finished only 7th in a mini-marathon on April 3rd. Another

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Runner's World Daily News interviewed 46 year-old Austin runner Carmen Troncoso who has been breaking records in her 45-49 age group. It mentions the following U.S. women's 45-49 age group records: 35:30 for the 10K, 16:55 for the 5K and 27:45 for the 8K.I thought her name looked familiar. She placed third at the Austin Schlotzsky's 5K Bun Run with a time of 17:01. The two women who came ahead

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I finished my first round of stats for this race. As I had predicted for the marathon, women in the twenties age group outnumber the men 566 to 438 (a women/men ratio of 1.29). The trend continues.It was good weather for a marathon. The temperature at the 7:00am start was 56°F (90% humidity) with overcast skies. At 10:00am it was still 56°F and overcast skies. The humidity had dropped a little

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I'm working on these stats now. In the mean time, I'll post some basic facts and stats. Just like the SLC Marathon, this had an exciting finish. The Kenyan Nephat Kinyanjui over took the race leader Yuriy Hychun of Ukraine in the last half-mile and won with a time of 2:15:37. Another Kenyan took second place, and Hychun came in third with a time of 2:16:10. It must be frustrating to come in third

Kennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10668101.post-1114903948967102662005-04-30T16:23:00.000-07:002005-04-30T16:32:29.016-07:00

I had wanted to post this a few days ago, but I got behind. Before I post the stats, there are several things I found interesting about the Salt Lake City Marathon that took place last Saturday (4/23/05).It was a very close race between Ethiopia's Araya Haregot and Kenya's Elly Rono. The two were even in the last mile until Haregot pulled away and won with a time of 2:15:14 (Rono finished second

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How many times have you run the Bun Run 5K? And how many those times did you improve your time? That's basically the idea behind what I call three-peat gainers (I guess there's probably a better name than this. Let me know if you know of one.) I started to look at Three-Peat Gainers in the Boston Marathon. Now I'll see how well it works for a short race. For the Bun Run 5K, I required the

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I've finally put together the Bun Run stats. I looked at how the lack of elite runners and cash prizes affected this year's race. The major sponsor, Scholtsky's Deli, decided not to offer cash prizes this year. I wanted to see if this would have an effect visible in the stats. I thought maybe the elite runners would attract more local runners or more top local runners. And perhaps the top local

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As was mentioned in my last post and on this RunTex article, the two Russian women (Olga Romanova and Tatyana Chulakh) almost took the overall winning time in last Sunday's Austin Bun Run 5K. Both had a time around 16:24 which was just 8 seconds behind the winning man. Looking back at their race history, the Austin men were very lucky.The two have done well in previous Bun Runs. In 2004, Tatyana

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After covering the major world races like the Boston and London Marathon I thought I would cover something local to me: the Schlotzsky's 5K Bun Run in Austin, Texas. I had found a great place to watch the runners on Lamar's pedestrian bridge. This allowed me to see the runners at about mile 1 and 2. I then was able to sprint over to the finish line to watch the runners come in. RunTex has a good

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When comparing the Boston Marathon repeat runners, I thought up an interesting category of runners. I call it the three-peat gainers. Here's how I define it:Finish the same race in 3 consecutive yearsNegative chiptimes (second race is faster than the first, third is faster than the second)Finish in the top 1000 men and women for all three racesPerhaps something like this may be useful for races

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I've added in 2003 into the comparisons. First, I compared 2004 with 2003. For those trying to improve their times, 2004 was tough. The heat took its toll. 207 out of 1000 men ran in both the 2004 and 2003 marathons. Out of these 163 (79%) ran slower. Only 44 ran faster. It was worse for the women. Out of 139 repeat runners in the top 1000, 124 (89%) ran slower.I then looked at the top 1000

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I've started looking at the repeat runners in the Boston Marathon and how they did compared to previous years. I'm starting with repeat runners from 2004 to 2005. I'll go back to previous years in future posts. Also for simplicity, I'll stick with the top 1000 male and female runners.My program found the repeat runners for 2004 and 2005 and compared their times. It then grouped the runners into

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Yesterday I looked at the top 1000 men and women by region of the 2005 Boston Marathon. This post will look at them my age groups.For the men, the largest group were those in their thirties. There were 420 of them in the top 1000. The next largest group was the 20-29 group with a total of 305 runners. Both of these are higher than last year in which the 20-29 age group had 283 runners and the 30-

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I found another runner who ran both the London and Boston Marathon. Walter Schaller is his name, and this article mentioned that he's 68 years old and has been running for about 10 years. He ran his first marathon when he was 60. This makes him the oldest of the five runners that I've found who ran both marathons this year.Perhaps this is the start of a trend of double marathon runs. Maybe

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Similar to my previous post for Boston 2004, I loooked at the top 1000 men and 1000 women at last Monday's Boston Marathon. I then took an average of the runners from each U.S. city and state. I also did this for countries. The state had to have at least 20 runners in the top 1000. Cities had to have at least 5 and countries had to have at least 2. Here are the countries, U.S. cities, and states

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Another article from the Boston Herald describes the Rosie Ruiz scam 25 years ago in which a 27-year-old office worker from New York City sneaked into the last mile of the Boston Marathon and took the women's title. It's amazing that it took eight days before the true women's winner, Jacqueline Gareau, would be officially acknowledged. The funny thing is that Ruiz jumped into the race so early

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The article from Buffalo News titled "Do the Elite Still Meet in Boston?" describes how perceptions of the Boston Marathon have changed over the poast 25 years. For many it's no longer on the "must-run" list of the world's best. Some reasons it gives: the lack of American runners that have been in contention to win for many years, financial competition from other marathons, and the fact that

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The Marathonguide.com has just posted yesterday's race results on its database which is much easier for me to download than the results from the Boston Marathon's database. This is what I used to look at the top 1000 runners in the 04 and 03 races. So I'll soon be doing more stat crunching.In the meantime, I found some interesting news articles on the Boston Marathon.

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This morning I was able to search the Boston Marathon 2005 results database for yesterday's results. I was able to pull in the top 100 male and female times. I'll start off the stats with the basic stuff that I did for London. The results also include all the split times, so in the next few days, I'll compile stats on these.Looking at the top 100 males and females, the average times for both

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Some highlights for today's 109th Boston Marathon: Hailu Negussie of Ethiopia won the men's race with a time of 2:11:45. Catherine Ndereba of Kenya (aka Catherine the Great) won the women's race with a time of 2:25:13. This was her fourth Boston title. At the halfway point, she trailed the three leaders by over a minute. She then came back to win with a margin of almost 2 minutes.Some interesting

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This Washington Post article provides a look at the business behind bigtime marathons. It describes the ways race officials have had to increase the money to attract the top runners. For example, in yesterday's London Marathon, the male and female winners recieved $55K. However, there's a lot more that's not entirely public. The superstars like Paula Radcliffe can earn much more in appearance

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I've put together the stats for the top 100 men and women in yesterday's London Marathon. The top 100 men averaged 2:25:23. The top 100 women averaged 2:52:30.Also, I've compared the average times yesterday with the 2004 and 2003 London Marathon average times. The women's average times have decreased by almost a minute from last year and by almost 5 minutes from 2003. The men's average, however,

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