I personally think of 3,000m in 7:30 as "seven and a half laps at 60 second pace"! Seriously though, in terms of training for 3k/5k runners, many British and European Coaches tend to use Horwill's five-pace theory, as used to great effect by El G and Ngeny. This theory is empirically based, and as it is meant to be easy to implement, the standard sessions involve multiples of 200m or 400m (i.e. 6 x 800m or 3 x 1,600m), and it is only for faster sessions that use is made of more metric distances such as 3 x 500m or 3 x 1000m. Hope this helps. Matthew Fraser Moat Vice Chairman British Milers Club >- -----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Saturday, February 24, 2001 12:04 PM >Subject: Re: t-and-f: El G - 8:09.89 - near WR for 2 miles (another imperial >race) > > >In a message dated Sat, 24 Feb 2001 1:48:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, >Dgs1170 writes: > ><< Still isn't wonderful to see a race where you can just divide by two and >go, "wow, back to back 3:42 1500s!">> > >Except nobody thinks that way. I was raising the beauty of the 2M because >the split into miles puts the race into a pace that every english-speaker >can relate to. Nobody relates to 1500s, not even metric speakers. > >Runners train at the logical distance of kilos, not 1.5 kilos. Euro listers, >fill me in: if you think of pace in a 3000 of 7:30, do you think 2x3:45 or >3x2:30? > >gh
