Investigator wrote:
I remembered that running video they posted when we were doing like telephone pole math and whatever:
https://www.facebook.com/marathonmanuk/videos/1025192257565032/He is huffing and puffing and it honestly looks like a tempo to half-marathon type effort.
The final numbers: 8 flat pace...
http://i.imgur.com/Kzk26n8.png
Overall, that segment (
https://www.strava.com/activities/617330300) is a pretty good legit-run for him. 19.4 miles over 4h21m elapsed time with only about 35 minutes of non-moving time.
Which makes it a great example to contrast to his non-legit runs.
This one shows his classic run-walk style, constantly alternating between 8mph (running) and 4mph (walking), with his longest run under 2 miles as usual, and most runs around a half mile. The piece in video predictably highlights one of the "run" segments, which had been a walk just before the camera started, and returned to a walk just after the camera stopped. But that doesn't mean it was done just for the camera, as similar "run" stretches continue for the rest of the segment.
But it's not just the pacing that differentiates it from a 10-miles-straight-at-10mph RV ride. It's also the routing. In this one, he cuts across parking lots, grassy expressway interchanges, through back yards, over railroad tracks, taking any sort of short-cut possible. Just after the video stopped, they crossed to the other side of the road in order to cut the tangent and take the inner radius as the road curved.
This is exactly the kind of routing you would expect from someone trying to minimize mileage so much that they did that crazy mountain scramble on the first day. And it's the kind of routing that you *never* see when he's doing the 10mph runs. Then, he always sticks right on the road, even if there's an easy parking lot to let him cut a tangent.