Initial comments for Mississauga Marathon

- Fantastic weekend weather wise. 5 degrees at the start, light winds and sunny.
- Race course was really nice with most of the downhill sections in the first 15k. Net downhill overall.

Times:

8	35:18	4:24 min/k
21.1	1:33:43	4:26 min/k
30	1:52:09	4:29 min/k
42.2	3:25:19.5

Comments:
- 1st 25k felt really good. This was exactly what I was planning. Ran very much to the plan.
- Started to fall off the wagon at 26k. No obvious early signs that this was coming. :(
- Hill at 30k was really tough and it shouldn’t have been.
- Shouldn’t have allowed myself to walk. This made my problems exponentially worse as I started to really tighten up and it became difficult to start up after each of the walks even though they weren't that long.
- By 40k could barely run at anything that resembles a good pace. Last 2.2 k took 15 minutes, mostly walking as I knew I was going to miss my Boston time by this point.
- Boston will have to wait one more race. At this point I’ll plan on at least one marathon just to qualify and one later in the fall.
- Too have a not fantastic day and still run 3:25 is great. :) I feel really good about that and it was another PB. There's a lot of positive things about this race for sure.

Initial thoughts on why the wheels came off this one.
- I was off sick the week before for 2 or 3 days. This may have taken more out of my than I thought. I don’t think this was a major factor but may have contributed.
- In the winter, a lot of my runs did not have good access to water. I need to run all of my marathon pace runs where I’m getting the same amounts of water/nutrition that I will get in the race.
- The 26-30 k is where this really started to come apart. I did a lot of runs at this distance and more. I think having lots of these again but with fewer interruptions on the course for lights / busy areas, etc would do me a lot of good. It may make for more boring run courses but it is probably what I need.
- I wasn’t confident that I could push through these early signs of fatigue. Mentally I hadn’t planned to be fading this early in the race.

Looking forward to talking to the folks at Peak