Your regular columnist is “out of town,” so the news here will be just some recapping of CIM ….
From Mark Murray…
There were some really awesome chip performances at the CIM this year. Overall, Mark Lantz did a great job of channeling his Western State’s lottery disappointment from Saturday into an outstanding top chip performance. Mark ran virtually even splits and made up a full two minutes on yours truly. Dennis Early ran solid as always with nearly even splits. There were several great ‘comeback’ performances, including Jen Pfeifer, Chris Enfante, and Chris Iwahashi. Erik Skaden put in a solid ‘back from injury’ training run as he looks ahead to Western.
But in my book, the three top performances were: Kal Lowden (who has he been training with?) who ran the fastest 2nd half among the Chips, and one of the biggest ‘negative splits’ among anyone in the top 200; Ed Randolph who smashed his ‘sub-3’ goal with a 1:26:24 2nd half marathon (is that a ½ marathon PR?); and Jenny Hitchings, who overcame a mid-year injury to break three hours with another nearly perfectly even split performance.
Congrats to all.
With the introduction of the half marathon chip timing, I thought it might be interesting to look at how folks ran their 2nd half compared to their first half. I looked at the top 200 plus finishers, and fully 30% ran a negative split. Kal and Ed were the big negative split Chippers, along with Jen Pfeifer and Chris Iwahashi. As the list below indicates, both John Nichols and I may need to look at our pacing.
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| 1st | 2nd | Fin | Dif | Neg. split |
| Mark Lantz | 1:25:32 | 1:25:58 | 2:51:30 | 0:00:26 |
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| Mark Murray | 1:23:40 | 1:27:52 | 2:51:32 | 0:04:12 |
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| Kal Lowden | 1:28:34 | 1:25:12 | 2:53:46 |
| 0:03:22 |
| Ed Randolph | 1:28:41 | 1:26:24 | 2:55:05 |
| 0:02:17 |
| Dennis Early | 1:28:25 | 1:28:48 | 2:57:13 | 0:00:23 |
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| Jen Pfeifer | 1:29:05 | 1:28:22 | 2:57:27 |
| 0:00:43 |
| Erik Skaden | 1:28:27 | 1:29:30 | 2:57:57 | 0:01:03 |
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| Jenny Hitchings | 1:29:00 | 1:29:15 | 2:58:15 | 0:00:15 |
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| John Nichols | 1:30:11 | 1:40:31 | 3:10:42 | 0:10:20 |
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| Chris Enfante | 1:34:27 | 1:36:16 | 3:10:43 | 0:01:49 |
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| Chris Iwahashi | 1:36:22 | 1:35:26 | 3:11:48 |
| 0:00:56 |
| Rena Schumann | 1:34:41 | 1:39:07 | 3:13:48 | 0:04:26 |
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Thanks for a most thoughtful analysis. Even pacing and the slight negative of the four “smarter” Chips indicates the best race day implementation of their weeks and months of training. (George Parrott’s two cents here)
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