Narcissism in motion.
Narcissism in motion.
Citizen of the West wrote:
Running 6:20s, you will probably place in the top 3 of 95% of all 5K races run this year. So from that perspective, you were fast.
Once, I was running shirtless at about that pace-and thought I was really cooking. At the time, I was 46 years old, 6 feet tall, 160 lbs or so. My son and his friend were there. My son told me his friend said my man-boobs were bouncing.
Onlookers are not as impressed with you as you are.
That's hilarious!
I can honestly say this question would never, ever, ever have occurred to me. The only time I wonder about onlookers is when I'm afraid I'm flicking sweat on them. Nobody wants to be that sweat-flicking jogger- oh, EXCUSE me, I meant RUNNER!
A couple years ago when I was doing a tempo probably around 545 pace at the time on the main road that runs right along the side of campus one of my girlfriends that had driven by said I looked like I was sprinting. Same this past winter when I was doing a tempo at about 530 pace on a slight downhill section another friend driving home from work said I looked like I was sprinting away also.
This morning I was running with my buddy around the lakes downtown where a local race had gone on that morning so a lot of people were hanging out around the finish, and it's a popular area so the paths were crowded in general, but we were moving around 615 pace for a good chunk of it but a couple times people clapped for us as we were going by.. we were confused. There were 2 other guys we had passed going the opposite direction that looked like they were moving pretty well, but in relation to most people running at 9 min/mile or walking, i'm sure anything under 7 min pace looks incredibly fast, but if there were no one around we probably wouldn't have looked that fast at all.
DaClones wrote:
A couple years ago when I was doing a tempo probably around 545 pace at the time on the main road that runs right along the side of campus one of my girlfriends that had driven by said I looked like I was sprinting. Same this past winter when I was doing a tempo at about 530 pace on a slight downhill section another friend driving home from work said I looked like I was sprinting away also.
This morning I was running with my buddy around the lakes downtown where a local race had gone on that morning so a lot of people were hanging out around the finish, and it's a popular area so the paths were crowded in general, but we were moving around 615 pace for a good chunk of it but a couple times people clapped for us as we were going by.. we were confused. There were 2 other guys we had passed going the opposite direction that looked like they were moving pretty well, but in relation to most people running at 9 min/mile or walking, i'm sure anything under 7 min pace looks incredibly fast, but if there were no one around we probably wouldn't have looked that fast at all.
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After more than 30 years of running, I'm under the impression that the typical person thinks that about 7 min pace is kinda fast, especially if they are close by when they see a runner go by at that speed. 21:40 5k is faster than what the average person can do in road races.
However, I've seem video of me at 6:00 pace in a workout and I looked ridiculously slow....to me!