Yeah based on that slowdown from his 5k to his 10k, I'm gonna say that he could have run no faster than 4 hours in the marathon.
Yeah based on that slowdown from his 5k to his 10k, I'm gonna say that he could have run no faster than 4 hours in the marathon.
based on his superb speed decay from 800m (1:47) to 1500m (3:26.00=1:49.87/800m), then I'm going to say he could run 2:01.
Of course, he could have run 1:42 or better.
I believe the slow 10K was a pacing job for Lance Armstrong in the 2008 NYC Marathon not an all out effort.
not sure that his 800 figures into this, but his double gold in 2004 proved he had the endurance.
Colby wrote:
I believe the slow 10K was a pacing job for Lance Armstrong in the 2008 NYC Marathon not an all out effort.
I recall a slow 10k after he retired , there's pictures of the event online somewhere.
He started off quickly and fell back afterwards
I think that he just jogged that 36 flat in a 10k in Oregon after his retirement when he was not training at all or hardly running and it was not pushed, just for fun. What's not mentioned there is that he ran a fast road leg of a relay race back in the early to mid 1990s--there's a video linked on one of these threads.
*If properly doped
anti moran wrote:
Bjørn Dæhlie wrote:What do you think? We know he used to do 10 mile distance runs at altitude, sometimes several days in a row, at 5:00min/mile pace or slightly faster. What could this Moroccan science experiment have run for the M?
moran
Did you mean to say moron?
jørn Dæhlie wrote:
anti moran wrote:moran
Did you mean to say moron?
You must be new on Letsrun.
Rolling_Dice wrote:
I cant stop laughing at the 10k time of 36 minutes in 2008.
For those who remember the era; did he really never run a competitive 10k? What could he have run? Sub 26.40?
Yes, he never really ran a competitive 10k. He barely ran any 5k's. 95% of his races were 1500/mile.
MarathonMind wrote:
Paul Tergat ran 7:28 and 12:49, so no reason to think El G would have done worse than 2:05-06.
Not a good comparison in my mind. El G was a miler, who could run a great 5k. (so yes, a miler/5k guy with the emphasis on the mile ( 3k might have been his best distance if it were an olympic distance), not a 800/mile guy like Coe).
Tergat's best distance on the track was 10k. He was most unbeatable at 12k X-C, where he was 5 time world x-c champ. He also was WR holder in the half marathon, and 2 time WC in the half marathon.
Tergat was much more a strength/long distance guy than El G, and thus more likely to run fast at the marathon than El G.
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anti moran wrote:
Bjørn Dæhlie wrote:What do you think? We know he used to do 10 mile distance runs at altitude, sometimes several days in a row, at 5:00min/mile pace or slightly faster. What could this Moroccan science experiment have run for the M?
moran
No. But you are.
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Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts