Wow. Just wow.

[ejvcruns]

So Kipchoge can run the marathon in 2 hours and 25 seconds. The marathon is 42 km 195m. The way I figure it, that means 1 hour is 21 km and 30 mins is 10.5k. Meaning Kipchoge can run the 5k in under 15 minutes. And that's his *marathon* pace. Like he can run three times as fast as me (I could run 5k in about 45 minutes) AND four times as long (I can run 30 minutes at a stretch).

Wow, right? These elite athletes are really something.

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

Yep, on a good day I can run 5k in the time it takes Mo Farah to run 10k.

You just have to let your jaw drop in awe.

[Martin_Rose Graduate]

I feel so slow now. 😂🤣😂

[sarah469 Graduate]

I know! It completely blows my mind.

I remember listening to Vassos Alexander's audiobook about running (well, I still am, actually! He's a sports presenter on Radio 2 incase you didn't know) and there is one chapter where he tells a story of this really awful race where he was running so slowly and really struggling and realised he was "only" running at 6min/km pace and I'm like .... "Are you kidding me? That's almost the fastest I have ever run a kilometre." And he's not even an elite athlete!

BUT then I will see that poster that says something along the lines of "A 9 minute mile or an 18 minute mile: doesn't matter; it's still a mile." Which is true, and makes me feel better. Lapping everyone on the couch, that's my motto!

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I suspect they do more than 3 x 30 minute runs each week though.

[icklegui Graduate]

The elite athletes are really something! But for the first time ever I'm watching and reading about them from a point of view of having run for 28 minutes today rather than being the permanent couch potato. Hurrah for C25K!

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Yes.. aren't we....? Tee hee...only joking

Personally...I am turning slow running into an art form Snail power

[dubnde in reply to Oldfloss]

And Mo even sprints at the end. Totally aliens obviously.

[icklegui Graduate in reply to dubnde]

speaking of aliens, what happened to the lady writing the story?

[Rignold]

When I was doing a lot of obstacle racing I was always humbled by the fact that the elites would be finishing the course with 70 obstacles and through constant knee and waist deep mud, hills etc in the time it would take me to run the same distance on a track.

That said elite anythings are elite for a reason. Eddie Hall has deadlifted 500kg. I am hanging out after doing sets of 130 this morning.