15 miles from Brooklyn to Billyburg, across that bridge, east village, FDR park (love it), through the financial district, across the Brooklyn, to home. Recalibrated my footpod so the distance should be closer to accurate. Crushed my previous time - 2:03:40 (versus 2:30! yikes).
Nuts and bolts - heart rate monitor is broken, so I didn't have that as a guide - went by 'feel' instead. Interesting to note that I probably let myself run too fast early due to no HRM. Sometimes it's nice to continue to build on the good week that you had and in this case it was definitely the way I felt. Walked ever 2 miles instead of every one. Also walked less at the beginning (something that I will NOT do again, it doesn't help). Felt fine with the 7:35 pace when running early, but definitely couldn't hold on to it. Wasn't well hydrated before the race, so took plenty of fluids and consumed them on the run. All told very pleased. Wanted to feel a bit stronger at the end than I did. Did NOT feel like I could have done another 10 miles, to put it that way, but wasn't as 'crushed' as the last time I went this distance...Also not pleased with the ever inflating per mile times toward the end. That said, that did include the hill leading to the bridge and the Brooklyn bridge, but there are late hills in the marathon too!
| Dist | Time | Lap Time | Avg of Lap | From Start |
| 1 | 0:07:58 | 07:58.1 | 7:52 | 7:52 |
| 2 | 0:15:32 | 07:34.1 | 7:33 | 7:43 |
| 3 | 0:23:43 | 08:10.6 | 8:10 | 7:52 |
| 4 | 0:31:26 | 07:43.6 | 7:43 | 7:49 |
| 5 | 0:40:02 | 08:35.6 | 8:36 | 7:59 |
| 6 | 0:47:39 | 07:36.9 | 7:38 | 7:55 |
| 7 | 0:56:11 | 08:31.7 | 8:20 | 7:59 |
| 8 | 1:04:38 | 08:27.1 | 8:11 | 8:00 |
| 9 | 1:13:02 | 08:24.1 | 8:23 | 8:03 |
| 10 | 1:21:11 | 08:08.7 | 8:08 | 8:03 |
| 11 | 1:29:54 | 08:43.3 | 8:35 | 8:06 |
| 12 | 1:38:20 | 08:26.0 | 8:25 | 8:08 |
| 13 | 1:46:46 | 08:26.0 | 8:25 | 8:13 |
| 14 | 1:55:12 | 08:28.0 | 8:29 | 8:14 |
| 15 | 2:03:40 | 09:20.9 | 9:17 | 8:18 |
MapMyRun.com - Long Run: 15 miles with 2 running then a walk on 08/30/2009