Jgav posted a tweet about it elsewhere.
Wonder how many bailed and got sub 3 
I was talking to someone after the race yesterday who asked me to take his photo, turned out he was from Sheffield. Did York a couple of years ago in about 3:20 but managed 2:53 yesterday!
Wow, tasty sprint for a photo finish at LA!
Barcelona today!
2:10 womens winner!! Rápido!
Well that was worse than the Ironman shuffle. TLDR: Quads didn’t have the resilience (they never do) and I clung on for final 5km.
Think spending a few days living with my friend talked me into being more ambitious than my training suggested. He committed to the 2:45 attempt and kept pressuring me to think ~2:50.
My 2:45-3:00 wave set off 10 minutes after him and had ~1500 people. Paced the first 12km beautifully feeling super easy around 4:10/km. Then surprised myself that a very small increase got me to ~3:59/Kms. Questioned it, and head at least resisted the legs urge to get faster still, but it felt great so thought maybe the friend was right and let myself settle in. Even told myself that without the swim/bike maybe the mystery elephant wouldn’t come from nowhere to sit on me.
Lasted to ~32km and then Dumbo appeared with sore legs, overheating, dry mouth, dizziness,. Still half thought if I slowed I’d keep 4:15-4:20 pace to the finish and not give too much back, but final 5k HR and breathing were still climbing over LT2 despite the fatigue and ended at over 5min/k
If I’d dropped to be on for 3:01 I’d have conceded to the overwhelming urge to walk or find some shade and collapse but scraped it home for 2:58.
Well deserved cerveza and dinner with his family, now to siesta with the F1.
Oh and his ambition off crazy low volume? Through half way in 1:22:00. Finished at 3:08 and we crossed the line together.
Still a good time on limited training, it’s always the quads though
No substitute for long hard training runs on concrete. Was probably my undoing.
Impressive time off that build up, endurance background paying off.
Gentle spin 
more a light hobble. Got the day to myself tomorrow so might try put the legs in the sea.
And disappointing you on the other front - Estrella 0 here!
Might try line up at Northumbrian 70.3 end of June if work settles down and can add in some bike (will probably race either way just different expectations)
Person I swim with occasionally as trains in same public pool has to be the favourite for taking British title, 2:27 today, very strong cyclist, and pretty much keeps up with me in the pool.
Claiming it as 1-0 to me in the head to head with Sam Laidlaw who dropped out after 14km.
Cracking work, that’s a serious effort!
Enjoy the beers!
I was pretty sure you’d do it as I said elsewhere. Even on such low volume. Resilience is the thing that make most peoples times blow out in the Marathon.
Knowing its possible and doing it often try to and do part ways, great result, well done for digging in towards the end. Most, maybe everyone thats done a standlone knows that feeling towards the end.
Your 17:30 5km goal is approx at 2hr48 Marathon btw, making assumptions about average economy
Where is your 5km in respect to your 2026 goal?
I feel those equivalent calculators fail at marathon for most (or maybe just half, but I suspect most) people who haven’t got equivalent training to the mara compared to the elites.
VDot 61-62 was probably fair for me couple years ago for 1500m all the way to 1/2M, but zero chance I’ve ever been in 2:38 marathon condition. Maybe 2:45-2:48 shape at peak ironman fitness even when in 1:15-1:16 1/2 shape and ironman training.
Last 5km attempt was around 18:30 last autumn/winter. Suspect that’s already close to 17:45 with winter training if I add better course and shoes, will try one in April.
Leazes is a fairly quick parkrun but gets busy, quite a lot of fast lads to hang onto as well, but there’s a bottleneck so you need to be near the front.
I agree. But most of those that don’t get close to the equivalent times don’t have a natural resilience or the assumed economy.
Or they don’t do the longer runs at a decent pace to built resilience and preserve the required economy as long as possible, they are ones that fall below the curve.
I feel you might have mentioned a injury history or a limiter in regards run volume, however it doesn’t matter you got that nice sub 3h Mara.