Mac Millan wrote:
I know the McMillan calculator isn't gospel, but it's decent guidance.
If you put Kip's 2:02:36 in the calculator as the baseline it projects a 26:05 10k and a 12:35 5k.
Equivalent performances =/= projections
Regardless, I think that those baselines are really only “meaningful” when the actual shorter distance is input and a hypothetical equivalency at a longer distance is output.
It’s seems borderline impossible for someone to put in the monumental aerobic base to bang out a 2:02 marathon then in some scenario— what, a year of shifting their entire focus to 5k training?- be able to rip 4:02 pace for 5k. It just defies “common” sense. It’s not like Kipchoge could go hit the track and and “taper” down to that kind of redline 5k fitness.
I’m probably missing things here but at the extremes of these performances I don’t think there is transferability.
Ib MO FARAH IS DUH RANGE GOAT