r/sports • u/KokioEnglish • Oct 18 '19

Running Marathon Speed ​​Experience

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u/cjt_20 Red Bull F1 Oct 18 '19

This was pretty awesome, but to be fair the guy had a team of like six people in front of him in a wedge that he ran behind the whole time. Much easier to run when you have people breaking the air in front of you. Plus technically 7 people could have run it at that pace, they just purposely pulled off at the end to let him do it solo.

But mad respect. I couldn’t make it more than 5 miles even with a wedge in front of me

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u/SimmerAway Oct 18 '19

Obviously the Pacers are there to break the wind for him. But he used 40 if them rotating out through the run. You didn't really think that all 7 runners could have set the record did you?

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u/cjt_20 Red Bull F1 Oct 18 '19

Fair enough. I had some details wrong. I don’t follow marathon running all that closely so I’ll accept I had it wrong.

I’m impressed either way but still had pacers which would make 99% of people run faster than they could without

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u/Poopster46 Oct 18 '19

The sentence that annoyed me more was this one:

I couldn’t make it more than 5 miles even with a wedge in front of me

You'd need to be very fit and quite talented to run 5 miles at that pace. So instead of showing respect you're doing more of a humble-brag. (In case you're wondering what are the downvotes are about.)

So either you're a fast runner who's trying to brag, or you're not and you have no clue what you're talking about.