Wejo's 7:00-7:30 aerobic conditioning pace and heart rate

It's not as if he's just running 7:00-7:30 pace every single run, every single day. If he's run 28:06 he got to be doing speed workouts regularly as well. Tempo runs, track workouts, hills, etc. I thought that was understood.

I don't doubt that he is also doing speedwork regularly throughout the week.

However, can anyone give me an answer to his slow paces for his aerobic conditioning runs and where his heart rate falls? Wouldn't his HR be significantly below 65% of his max if he runs 7 min pace everyday?

You also must understand that he is doing all his running (not including workouts obviously) at 7,000 ft. plus elevation. Running 7:00 pace in Flag is not the same as 7:00 pace at sea level.

Well...who came up with the 65-80%? The guy across the street? Some EP guy with no running experience? RunnersWorld? As long as the pace feels "easy" isn't that all that really matters? When you're running upwards of 120-150 miles a week 7:00 pace doesn't feel like 7:00 pace during a low mileage week. 7:00 pace is a lot easier when running 50 miles a week than when running 150 miles a week. Plus the fact that he's at altitude. The ACSM says 50-85% of Heart Rate Reserve for aerobic conditioning. Any kind of arbitrary range like this is meaningless. It's not as if you stop recieving aerobic benifits below a certain heart rate or Vo2. Aerobic benifits do increase with an increase in workload, but they also increase with an increase in duration. Focusing on how slow or fast someone runs his or her easy runs is missing the entire point of training.

Alan