I read an article on the homepage about a British racewalker that says he can walk 5k in 18:50. What could these guys RUN for standard road distances?
16:00? 15:00? 14:00?
I read an article on the homepage about a British racewalker that says he can walk 5k in 18:50. What could these guys RUN for standard road distances?
16:00? 15:00? 14:00?
A guy who does the racewalk for Australia posted on Reddit about it. He ran 1:57 800m and a 1:10 half marathon so pretty decent. He runs once a week and racewalks the other 6 days.
Some of them would be good runners, some would not.Most HS or college walkers who can walk 6:30 or faster for a mile can run 4:30 to 4:50 for a mile off of walking training and zero running. That assumes walking intervals, distance, tempos, etc. At least that was true for me and my teammates/competitors back in the dark ages. Not great times, but obviously would have been faster with running training.
asked once wrote:
A guy who does the racewalk for Australia posted on Reddit about it. He ran 1:57 800m and a 1:10 half marathon so pretty decent. He runs once a week and racewalks the other 6 days.
How many race walkers do zero running? The little info I have seems to say that plenty of them run quite a bit in training.
none, just look at any race
Dufus wrote:
How many race walkers do zero running? The little info I have seems to say that plenty of them run quite a bit in training.
Well, years ago, the best US walkers, or more to the point, Mexicans (and an Englush guy who was world class) did only walking, based on what I heard and saw. That was the norm. I don't know how top international walkers train now. Why would you need to run- unless you had a walking specific injury and you needed to cross train.