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Goto: 2011-03-01 2011-03-03 Argentina

2011-03-02:

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Distance today: 42.0 km (Accumulated: 23614.9 km)
Elapsed time: 03:57:35
Country: Argentina

Start 08:51am, 23c, l. wind, rain. At Bl.&white rds. "km 1089" at road 2 to Neuquen. Finish 14:12pm, 39c, humid, allmost clear and no wind. At "Nuevo Cheo Hotel" in Villa Regina, on road 2 to Neuquen.

Technicalities.. !

As mentioned yesterday, I was checking an irregularity w. the gps. It turned out to be quite a little technical riddle - which I havent fully found the solution to yet:

As part of my documentation of the run I use the Endomondo gps-tracking system, which logs & publicly displays each km of the daily run from start to finish, w. precise distance, total time, all km split-times and altitude profile as well as the geographical coordinates.
(This goes along w. the daily logbook of the run, the gps-coded pictures & Jamies video documentary).

However as I looked through the data after the 41km run yesterday, I immideately noticed that something was quite wrong:

From 26km to 31km it showed the following km-splits, in min/km:

.. 9:49min (5min stop while drinking water 1km normal pace) -
5:39 - 5:54 - 2:27 - 4:59 - 3:46 .. Followed by my lunch break.

While the rest is normal, the 3:46 split is unusually fast and the 2:27 is downright impossible !
It means a pace of 25km/hour for that km - which is simply Faster than I can run ! My fastest time ever on 1km is 2:59 (done 4days after I set my pb. on 100km, 6:58h., in 2000.). And while this is also a few days after my 100km stage, it just cant be possible. Yet the distance match the roadside km-markers !! ..