My favorite phenomenon in this thread is people ragging on you for judging this guy as others or even the same posters would then be like 16:30 isn't special and is slow. Lol, nicely done LRC trolls. Honestly sounds like this guy doesn't perform to his abilities on race day. If he's doing intervals at 5:xx pace, he should be able to run a 19 min 5K. I would wonder if he goes out too hard in the races or just is a bit of a head case.
Sid22 wrote:
also slow, but old too wrote:
OP: How old is the guy? If he's 25, then I agree that he's pretty slow. I know, because I'm slow, but if I had trained like that in my 20s I would have been way under 20 for 5K.
If he's 45, it's a whole different story.
He is in his mid 30s, he won his age group.
Also may I add that I am absolutely laughing my ASS off at all the 19 minute guys probably taking it personally and getting p*ssed at me in this thread. I think you all misunderstand me, I am not slagging this guy or his passions, I respect them but if I see somebody doing intervals at what looks like 5-6 minute pace on a regular basis, I would expect them to be competition, not beat them by several minutes. I am not saying that he is slow in general, I am saying he is slow relative to his training. I actually wouldn’t consider somebody slow until they are 23 minutes + seeing as probably only about 10% of people in most races break 23 minutes. In general, I actually consider this guy fit amd fast and would actually think about training with him once in a while, he is certainly faster than anybody else on the rec sports league teams that I know who all dished out times in the 21:00 to 25:00 range.