It's a little bit apples and oranges

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Jun 6, 2019
11:44:06am

donnerstag All-American

It's a little bit apples and oranges

Because marathons are completely different in terms of terrain, running surface, and weather conditions.

If you had a nice cool day without any wind, on a course that is slightly downhill on the road, you can run faster than on a track. Yesterday's conditions were slower than average. Even Young had run about a minute faster previously on a track.

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Clayton Young ran an average 4:43 mile for 6.2 consecutive miles. It's crazy.

RdF3

6/6/19 11:13am

His last two laps was 2:03, ridiculous! (Unofficial split - eyeballed only)

Kugmo

6/6/19 11:16am

that's unreal. Does he compete in the mile/1600 ?

Mayor of Cougartown

6/6/19 11:19am

1:59.3 final 800. (link inside)

HomeTownHero

6/6/19 11:29am

His last lap was 55 seconds. Amazing.

flavordave

6/6/19 11:35am

are his splits posted anywhere?

BlueFrog

6/6/19 12:15pm

HomeTown linked to the splits, two posts up.

Kugmo

6/6/19 12:25pm

I don't see what the big deal is. I can do that on a bike without really trying.

Baron

6/6/19 11:23am

I can do all 6.2 miles in 4:43 total in my car.

cougaman

6/6/19 11:25am

Same pace elite marathon runners do for 26.2 miles

BlueFrog

6/6/19 11:23am

dudes aren't human.

Mayor of Cougartown

6/6/19 11:27am

It just brings it closer to home for me when a white RM kid from Utah does it.

RdF3

6/6/19 11:28am

oh for sure. Jared Ward averages right at 5 on his PR pace

BlueFrog

6/6/19 11:39am

Not exactly, at that pace marathon time would be 2 hrs 3.5 min

statguru

6/6/19 11:29am

so just a bit slower than a few of the elite marathon records?

BlueFrog

6/6/19 11:33am

Wow! I did not realize marathon record had dropped so low, you are right.

statguru

6/6/19 11:36am

name doesn't check out

BlueFrog

6/6/19 11:38am

It's a little bit apples and oranges

donnerstag

6/6/19 11:44am

EXCEPT IT IS 4+ TIMES FARTHER

BlueFrog

6/6/19 12:08pm

True, but it's a fact that road racing is faster than track racing

donnerstag

6/6/19 1:00pm

uh. that is not a fact. in fact it is wrong. track racing is faster than road.

BlueFrog

6/6/19 2:01pm

RE: uh. that is not a fact. in fact it is wrong. track racing is faster than

donnerstag

6/6/19 2:29pm

what does that link have to do with anything? you said road racing is faster than track. it isn't. there

BlueFrog

6/6/19 2:49pm

There isn't a consensus on the topic

donnerstag

6/6/19 3:16pm

there is a consensus. track is faster as a whole than road

BlueFrog

6/6/19 3:44pm

As miserable as that has to be, you would think they would run faster to

StantonMac

6/6/19 11:49am

truth in this. the true warriors of marathons are the people in the 5hr range. They are grinding hard for 5 hrs. Elites

BlueFrog

6/6/19 12:09pm

sounds awful. I can barely tolerate a 10k.

Mayor of Cougartown

6/6/19 1:20pm

you need to work on your mental toughness. 👍🏽

BlueFrog

6/6/19 2:02pm

to run a half or a marathon for sure. but I'm not really interested

Mayor of Cougartown

6/6/19 4:42pm

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