A friend of mine ran an 8k a few weeks ago closing in 9:30 for the final 3200, his overall time was 25:00. How fast could he run if he had even split it? The race terrain was flat all the way through. FWIW
A friend of mine ran an 8k a few weeks ago closing in 9:30 for the final 3200, his overall time was 25:00. How fast could he run if he had even split it? The race terrain was flat all the way through. FWIW
Maybe 24:45? Depends on what kind of runner he is.
Uneducated guess at 24:45-50. 3200 is an entire two/fifths of the race remember.
Maybe 15 seconds faster? I don't know, there are so many variables.
About 25:00.
Your friend probably spent the first 4800 struggling through imaginary suffering, because he was going 5:10 pace and had a long way to go.
Then when he had only 3200 to go, he was able to stop imagining all that pain and speed up tremendously.
It's impossible to even-split with that mindset. If he'd been running at 5:00 pace, some of the pain would have been real, and he'd be imagining even worse pain, so with 3200 to go, he would slow down to save his kick, and then the kick would get the time back for an overall 5:00 pace.
If you stop suffering on purpose just because you're in a race, then you can go out at 5:00 pace and still speed up. I mean, tell your "friend" that.
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