Runner Assesment - What does the athlet need to work on ?

I think it's pretty easy to look at PRs/past training and figure out where they're at with strength/speed. Seem how their PBs stack up from 5k-marathon & that'll tell you what they need to work on.

In my experience, a lot of weekly group session type runners focus on the longer distances and show up once a week to do a speed session that has 5k or less in total volume. Easy fix is to build up to longer threshold sessions with more volume and shorter rest if you have a bunch of marathoners who have 8 x 400 as their main session of the week.

You may be on top of this, but just in case ...

On "masters runners": I'm assuming you have a sense of how the runner's age is likely to affect this. It's also why any possible formula would probably have to be one that takes this into account. Discrepancy between 5k "expected" time and marathon "expected" time for the same runner at similar relative fitness would almost certainly differ between age 40 and age 50. And that may signal the need for the older runner to work on speed, but I don't think it's quite cut and dried.

Gender might affect this too, on average (among good, well-trained runners, even), but I'm not sure.

Similar discrepancies would apply to runner type, but I think those would be more easily visible in historical and recent PRs/times, along with other info from the athlete.

Sounds like you are not equipped to coach and should rethink this plan.

Hahahhahahahha!! Masters runners?! Hahahahha. Old slow people who need to get a life. What kind of antisocial losers do this? A group for old shuffling smelly losers who

are past their prime? Join a softball league geeks. We Guaranteed these dweebs never pick up young hot girls. Dorks! Hahaha

Hey OP you suck! What are ya paid to do this? nothing? Hahahhahaha . How’s your wife like your wasting time instead of getting a real job? Hahahhahaha. You suck!

Hi I’m the OPs wife. I prefer he waste time and not make real money. Renting is fine as home ownership is overrated. So are vacations and having money.

hahhahahahahaha!

Thanks for the responses so far, from the first posters !

Wow what irrational hate ?

I see you want to speak about money and girls and Masters running ?

Funnily most Masters runners in this group are actually retired hedge fund managers who ran in high school, stopped running when they made their money and then rediscovered the sport when they got older...

See driving porsh, traveling around the world to race marathons in Boston, Tokyo, London , volunteering at your Parkrun/Club of your youth are activities for people who took care of their families and made their money already, no need to be paid by the club. You actually donate so they can refurbish the track ;)