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January 26, 2005
Slow at distance?
Studying Greg McMillan's calculator, I notice discrepancies. If my best time ever for a 10 km run is a hair over 40:00, then equivalent performance for a mile should be 5:33.5. But I've run a mile in 5:29, suggesting I should be able to get trained for a 10 km run down at 39:28. I'm pretty sure the mile I measured was within a meter of being a mile.
I'm not sure what happened. Maybe it wasn't 10 km. Maybe I'm just lazy, and it's easier to force my body for 5:29 than for 40:00. In any case, to break a 3 h marathon time, I'd have to be capable of a mile in under 5:20, or a 10 km in 38:21. Not there yet.
Posted by Mark at January 26, 2005 09:51 PM