I don't think that's normal at all. Usually people do 3 miles or 20 minutes warm up before a typical workout or race of this distance. Six miles is quite a bit more than normal. The pace may also be slightly quicker than normal, but not outrageous. A lot of people at that level would be more like 6:45-7:10 pace for their easy warmup.
BrainCelll wrote:
if you followed him on strava, listened to his interview on LR, listened to Gibby's interview on LR, or listened to any GB interview ever, then you'd already know he does all his runs at 6:00 pace, so its actually slower than normal
Ok, this thread made me go back and listen to the interview he did on LR and I remember thinking it was unique that he ran his mileage that fast. But then I started thinking about it and did some math and I came up with this being the equivalent of a 20 minute 5k runner doing their mileage at like 9:20 pace! And that made it sound ridiculously slow. Maybe my math is off but I just did a ratio of his 400 splits for simplicity and came up with 5k/easy as 62/90 and then compared it to a 20 minute runner at 96/x. Cross product gave me x = ~139 or 9:19 per mile. Am I crazy or is that not fast at all relative to his PR? I know elites tend to really take their easy days slow but it surprised me that there was some talk about his pace when it isn't even that fast relative to his races.
GrahamTheMedalist? wrote:
At 6:17 pace. Is that normal?
On another note, what are the odds he medals? Maybe I am still shaken out of my wits from what happened yesterday but maybe it’s possible?
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