When someone closes in :25 or 12:57 it has little to do with pure speed. It's all about slowing down the least. Let's say a normal elite runner can run a 10k race going through the 5k mark 5% slower than his/her all out 5k. How would you train in order to drop that % to say 3%? What if your all out best 200 is in the :24-:25 range? How would you train in order to drop a :25 second last 200 at the end of a 10k? Lots of fast hardcore speedwork? Or, would you improve your endurance by running a lot of hard miles? If you improve your endurance you'll slow down less as you go up in distance.
These guys went through the 5k about a minute off their best 5k times. Relatively speaking, they were jogging the first 5k
Alan
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I'd be a big seller on that claim.
malmoo
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of edndana Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: t-and-f: 12:57 last 5000
> Perhaps our 10k guys (and 5k guys) go about training too much like > they would for a marathon and don't focus enough on speed. Geb > constantly talks > about improving his speed. How many of our 10k guys can run 24.5 flat
> out let alone at the end of a 10k?
Jeez, I'm sure at least 8 of our top 10 10K guys could run 24.5 all out, if not all of them. They may never actually have done so, but I bet nearly all of them could. - Ed Parrot
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