What’s the slowest easy pace you’ve heard of someone having and they still had a pretty fast 5k/mile/800?
What’s the slowest easy pace you’ve heard of someone having and they still had a pretty fast 5k/mile/800?
What do you mean by slowest easy pace? Easy runs are not something you should have a minimum pace..
Sure I’d understand if you are a 14 min guy, running 6 minute km pace is probably a bit slow. But it could be anywhere from 5 min to 4min depending on the day, maybe even a tiny bit faster
I know a 800/1500 runner (better at 1500) who'd jog at 7:30 pace for his easy days, about an hour. 1:49 / 3:40
Mile plus about 3 min seems to be the sweet spot for most pros. That said I believe the Lion’s share of aerobic adaptations come at a pace considerably slower. The pros can’t afford to leave pace on the table so they have to do a lot to get that last bit.
Slowpoke129 wrote:
What’s the slowest easy pace you’ve heard of someone having and they still had a pretty fast 5k/mile/800?
Brad Schlapak won the national cross country championship once in the mid 90s. He got to 3:58 in the mile. He did nearly all of his distance work at about 8:00 a mile. And he didn't really do all that much faster running.
Many years ago there was a thread here about people who ran really big mileage. I think the thread was called "140 miles a week" or something along that line. But maybe it wasn't that thread. There was a guy who was in Upstate New York who had done 3:55 for the mile and says what got him there, from maybe 4:10 or so, was doing 130 miles a week very easily. I knew who he was but he wanted to be anonymous so he changed a few details about what he did.
There was an Englishman in the 70s called Chris Stewart. He eventually ended up as a road racer, got third in successive years at the New York Marathon, but was world class on the track before that. His best mile was 4:00 point something and his best 5,000 was in the 13:20s. Chris did a lot of fast stuff on the track but did his distance runs quite slowly. The same was true of Henry Rono.