Just read an ultrarunner's race report on a blog. 7 miles in 2 hours.

Maybe it was 1) at high-ish altitude and 2) all up hill?

I could literally walk that fast without trying.

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Fail troll fails hard. Seriously, the least you could do is provide a fake link. Go back to your bridge little boy.

That's funny....tonight I decided to ignore the pace and just go as easy as I could to let my legs recover from a hard long effort a few days ago. When I finished and figured my average pace, I was amazed as it was the slowest pace I had recorded in a while. I guess I needed that recovery.

I covered over twice that distance in less time. I can't imagine going that slow. Those are 17 minute miles and I can comfortably walk that pace...

I'd think maybe he could justify it if he's putting in like 220+ MPW or something, but at that pace, that'd be over 60 hours of running a week, so somehow I doubt it.

lolz!

Was it possibly the last 7 miles of a 100 mile or 24 hour race?

I read Yiannis Kouros's race report and he ran 7:38 pace for 24 hours, so I think typical is somewhere in between.

blogultr wrote:

Is this typical? I'm a track runner and was surprised at the pace.

Which race are we talking about? If we're talking, for instance, about Badwater, the last two miles are up the side of a mountain following a 133 mile warm up jog through a freaking furnace. To be standing up at that point is no trivial feat, never mind moving forward at any pace.

It's fairly easy to determine whether this is "typical" or not by looking at race results for any ultramarathon and doing the math.

Even taking into account that many ultras are on trails, or at altitude, or up the side of one or more mountains, this pace is not at all typical. The runner you refer to was either totally bonked-out and dying at the end of a race, or climbing the side of a big mountain, or the slowest "runner" in the field.

Heard through the grapevine wrote:

It's fairly easy to determine whether this is "typical" or not by looking at race results for any ultramarathon and doing the math.

Even taking into account that many ultras are on trails, or at altitude, or up the side of one or more mountains, this pace is not at all typical. The runner you refer to was either totally bonked-out and dying at the end of a race, or climbing the side of a big mountain, or the slowest "runner" in the field.

Or... he lied. GASP!

Agree that the op is a troll.

But after reading "Born to Run", I've been wondering about ultra paces.

About half of the finishers at this year's Leadville Trail 100 finished in over 28 hours (30 hours is the cutoff). 100 miles over 28 hours equals 3.57 mph (or an average of 16.8 minute/miles). That seems slow. I know it's at extreme altitudes and includes monster climbs and multiple stops (and I actually doubt that I could do it).

This was from someone who did the Cascade Crest 100.