Duke City Marathon 2023

Overview

My first twenty six miles were much more consistent than last year, but they were consistently slow due to the apparent extra mileage that my watch had at the end. So, my final time was 5:00:37 and that's with me running the last .44 miles at an 8:57 min/mile pace. Prior to that, my fastest mile was 11:02 and my slowest was 11:46.

Failure

I believe I was probably a net asset as a pacer this year, but only because, as far as I know, nobody was actually using me to break five hours, but I could be wrong about that.

Thirty seven seconds may not seem like much, but it's unacceptable as is, and that was after me speeding up at the end. If I had run my last .43 miles at the 11:22 minute per mile pace that I had averaged (assuming the mileage from my GPS watch was correct), I would have been 100 seconds over my 5:00:00.00 goal.

More Later…

It was a fine event and I enjoyed talking with the people around me, many of whom were doing DCM as their New Mexico marathon for the Fifty States Marathon Club. I did not, however, take notes and I had to scramble a bit in the days after DCM to get ready for the Javelina Jundred. So, when (if?) I go back to write up more, I'll fail at that, too.