Pacing Strategy

I recently read Kara Goucher's recap of her New York City marathon back in November, 2014. If you ran that marathon you know the wind that day had to be factored into any planned pacing strategy. I feed off the determination and strength of our elite runners, often wondering if they ever hit the wall because they seem to just keep going no matter how beat up they look. Kara's recap, as is most of Kara's writing, makes her seem more like one of us average marathoners, suffering the way we do along the marathon road with feelings of defeat [...]