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How to meet your marathon time goal?

Marathon pacers

If you did all the hard training, there still can be a lot of things that can stand in your way in reaching your race goals, like inaccurate GPS (due to tall buildings) preventing you to keep the steady pace or a simple lack of motivation at the hardest moments.

To make sure you did your best in keeping your anticipated race pace is to run with pacers (sometimes called pacemakers) – a bunch of guys and girls who will make sure you will arrive at the finish line in a certain time, given you will be able to keep up with them.

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How fast should you be in each IRONMAN® leg to finish in less than 10 hours?

Triathlete cycling

Let’s take three IRONMAN races that are considered to be the fastest and analyze the performance of athletes who manage to finish it sub-10 (times 9:55 to 9:59) in 2019.

tl;dr: you can be (relatively) slow in one discipline and still finish sub-10, so Anything is possible™ 🙂

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