Marathon comparison

I've only run two marathons - the Royal Victoria Marathon in 2007, and most recently the North Olympic Discovery Marathon in 2011. I kept very detailed logs about my training for each one, so here is a comparison of the two. In each case I did 5 months of focused training. So a lot of the numbers displayed below are the totals for the months months leading up to the race.

Stat	2007 Marathon (RVM)	2011 Marathon (NODM)
Total distance	1288 km (no GPS watch)	1243 km (Garmin 410 GPS)
Total time	111 hours	115 hours
Races	7 (4 km, 2x6 km, 8 km, 2x10 km, half)	4 (800m, 5 km, 10 km, half)
Runs > 20 km	8	11
Runs > 30 km	6	4
Longest run	~34 km	36 km
Highest weekly km	92 km	120 km
Tempos (<4:30)	1	18
Yasoo 800s (10x800m)	2:58, 2:58, 2:57, 2:57, 2:55, 2:52, 2:55, 2:53, 2:47, 2:55 (Avg 2:55)	2:51, 2:47, 2:45, 2:41, 2:42, 2:39, 2:40, 2:41, 2:44, 2:22 (Avg 2:41)
Marathon result	3:02:56 (1:29/1:34)	2:59:45 (1:29/1:31)

I thought it was interesting how similar the total distance and time were. I have a feeling that my 2007 distances were slightly inflated since I didn't have a GPS watch, and so I could only guess how far I ran based on how hard I was running and how long it took.

My Garmin Connect activity is public and can be viewed here. I didn't have a GPS watch for the 2007 marathon, but I found a lot of other people who have run the Victoria course, and I combined the elevation profiles for the two marathons here. You can see that the NODM course has a lot more elevation drop, but it also has some very steep uphills too. The RVM course is flatter in general, but has lots of undulation. Most garmin activities for the RVM route list about 200m of elevation gain, and 200m of elevation lost. The NODM activity lists 220m of elevation gain, and 250m of elevation loss.