American Men at Boston - Splits Analysis

Split	dowling	diff	verran	diff	coogan	diff	leader	diff
5K	1600	1600	1602	1602	1609	1609	1600	1600
10K	3130	1530	3151	1549	3207	1558	3129	1529
15K	4646	1516	4751	1600	4804	1557	4645	1516
20K	6204	1518	6358	1607	6409	1605	6203	1518
13.1	6522		6728		6736		6520
25K	11715	1513	12005	1607	12005	1556	11712	1513
30K	13311	1556	13626	1621	13637	1632	13217	1505
35K	14945	1634	15241	1615	15324	1647	14711	1456
40K	20610	1625	20833	1552	21015	1651	20206	1455
Fin	21328	718	21519	646	21735	720	20902	656


Dowling gets big credit for taking it out with the leaders.
He did rig worse than Verran (who didn't rig at all), but it didn't matter in the contest for first white guy, since he had a 3 minute advantage
Verran charged hard at the end, but it was coming off of a 6728 first half, which is actually what I advised him to do, still a 215 at Boston doesn't suck.
Maybe next marathon, he can take more of a chance.
Oddly enough, Clint ran from 40K on in in 6:46 - not only faster than any of the other Americans, but faster than race winner Rogers Rop.
Coogan ran fairly evenly, rigging, but not rigging too much, at the end for a rather routine 217.
He probably could have done better, but he wouldn't have finished in the money (top 15) regardless.