Race Results: Melbourne Marathon
A much better result than last year, knocking 40mins off my previous time (admittedly, I wasn’t running injured this year, so expected to go significantly faster). I was aiming for 3:30, so am pretty pleased with the time, but still need to do a bit of work on my pacing; my half marathon PB is 1:33, so to go through halfway during a marathon at 1:35 was probably a bit too quick (which showed in my split for the run home).
- 10.5km: 0:48:22
- 21.1km: 1:35:49
- 42.2km: 3:25:25
With only 8 weeks until the big dance in Busselton, this was a pretty decent hit out. I’m fairly confident across the three disciplines… all I need to do now is make sure I can string them all together.
I’m racing Noosa in a couple of weeks, and Shepparton a couple of weeks after that, so will have a couple of good tune ups before IMWA.
