Who has the fastest easy pace ever?

El G was reported to have run 30 min 10ks for his easy runs

Anyone who has two brain cells knows that cap. To answer op, there are some pros who will get down to 5:40-5:30 min mile pace for easy runs. But most pros will usually do their easy runs between 6:00-7:30 pace depending on how much mileage they're doing, if they did a hard workout or long run the day before.

Jakob. Nothing is easier than walking. Perhaps not the fastest though.

Sydney Maree said he did 10 miles in 52-53 very morning

A fascinating thought experiment.

There's no one way to answer this question.

What does easy pace even mean? Z2? Z1? Theoretical HR and lactate at various speeds? Actual average training pace?

In theory, the fastest marathoner of all time, the late Kelvin Kiptum, would probably have been able to run the fastest with lactate figures under 1.8mmol (I'm talking close to 5:00 pace in perfect conditions for a true Z2, considering MP was 4:36/mile) but it's highly unlikely he ever did that, considering his training load was reportedly near 300km/week, he trained at altitude, on hilly terrain, and his workouts were quite focused.

Speaking of which, I've seen a lot of runners do quite aggressive easy paces relative to their actual race fitness, even at high mileage loads. This is an ineffective training approach for a multitude of reasons. I think anyone who cares enough to post in this thread already knows what those reasons are though, so I won't bother to lay them all out.

please don't f**king say cap.

please don't f**king say stupid sh!t.

You have the mentality of a loser. You would have just DNFd.

He's more of a DNS type of guy.

There isn't a singular answer to this, but I thought I read at one point Alberto Salazar had Galen Rupp and Mo Farah doing easy runs as fast as 5:20 pace. I imagine that's about as fast as any pro would do a run and still call it easy

Whoever it is, I am certain they are not fast or have won anything significant

Joe Klecker

This is what I was going to say. Thought I read that Farah's easy runs changed drastically with AlSal. Maybe by roughly a minute.

Is this what some people would call gray zone?

Who?

So Jakob was a winner? Walking?

True. At 71 competitive running was left long ago.

Do you also make fun of Ron Clarke for falling in an Olympic final? Did you know that El Guerrouj fell in his first Olympic final, lost his second, and is still considered the 1500m/mile GOAT?
I know who is not a winner. You.

You may have confused "fastest easy pace" with "easiest race pace".

They already make an easy run competition. It’s called ultras.

Charlie Lawrence is the GOAT easy runner.

Neither comparison is equivalent or valid. Unlike El G, Ingebrigtsen didn't fall - he completely misjudged his capabilities and was reduced to a walk. Ron Clarke was the best distance runner in the world when he went to Mexico '68 but stood no chance at altitude. Ingebrigtsen has had some great victories on the track but in the HM he showed no understanding of what the race required and his abilities and ran like a big-head who blew up.