powerofreason wrote:
Her 800 PR is 2:10. (That was in university; she could probably run 2:08 now if she did some speed training for the event.)
Which puts her 400 speed at 60-62 (800 pace is normally ~10% slower than 800 pace for endurance-trained runners).
Get real here. Marathoners are not fast. That's why they have to run for 26 miles instead of 1500 meters.
dont know about americans, but rod dixon had to be fast to run a 3:33 for 1500, geb ran 3:31 at 1500 indoors and was alleged to have gone 1:46 for 800.
not a marathoner but seb coe did finish a marathon long after retirement and he ran sub 47 in an open 400 and 44.9 in a relay.
Yeah, it's true. Those Ethiopians can barely break 60... for 450m.
douglas burke wrote:
dont know about americans, but rod dixon had to be fast to run a 3:33 for 1500, geb ran 3:31 at 1500 indoors and was alleged to have gone 1:46 for 800.
not a marathoner but seb coe did finish a marathon long after retirement and he ran sub 47 in an open 400 and 44.9 in a relay.
Dixon and Geb might not be representative of most marathoners, plus they were not running the marathon when they ran those times. Also, when did Coe split 44.9. I thought his relay split PR was like 45 mid?
And besides, ventolin explained to me how Daniel "7:20" Komen, who of course also ran 3:29, couldn't break 50, so maybe those guys wouldn't be that fast over 400 anyway, despite their fabulous 1500 PRs (irony alert).
1:46.xx is entirely reasonable for Geb at 800m. He and Bekele have both said they had 49.xx speed and that also sounds about right.
Concerned Citizen wrote:
Concerned Citizen wrote:According to the IAAF scoring tables, 55.0 for a woman is about 47.5 for a guy, so it would be pretty fast for a marathoner.
Okay, I was wrong, apparently the IAAF tables don't work for comparing men's and women's performances. Sorry.
Wait, so is there any way we can find out what a 55.0-55.9 is equal to?
dfasdfsdfsd wrote:
Wait, so is there any way we can find out what a 55.0-55.9 is equal to?
About 49.0-50.0
55.0 is equal to a 47.7
56.0 is equal to a 48.4
This is according to mercier scoring tables and not guess work by a group of males that think they are a little better than they are.