This is what I posted in the other thread;
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That's really cool. I think the bar is 2:37 for pro triathlete women by Erin Baker, Sonja Krolich (sp?) and 2:38 in Boston by Jackie Gallagher (RIP) which she then improved on with a 2:32 at the Nagoya Marathon. MacMillan puts a 32 min 10K runner at 2:30. Derate that a bit for the difficulty in NYC and the hills in the closing loop in central park. How fast does Gwen run an open 10K?
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Having said that, if she really has not run more than 10 miles, I would be curious to hear if she has done any 75-90 mile run weeks with double runs. If she has, I would not be worried about the 10 mile long run. She is genetically blessed, has superb and symmetrical form and can run fast at the end of a 2 hour event already.
But running "that fast for that long" can be a different animal....witness Mark Allen's disaster race at the Berlin Marathon 1994. He was supposed to go sub 2:20 and that never happened. He DNFd from wooden quads. I am not aware of a single pro male triathlete who has gone sub 2:20 (Ryan Bolton and Christian Bustos ran 2:22). Jackie Gallagher has that unreal 2:32 high bar from the Nagoya marathon. She also had a bronze medal from the Commonwealth Games marathon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/...3_Women%27s_marathon
Why do I know all this shit? Well for the longest time I was a marathoner who raced way faster at open marathon than my equivalent IM run times....so was alway interested in what the pros would do in the odd event they did an open marathon
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That's really cool. I think the bar is 2:37 for pro triathlete women by Erin Baker, Sonja Krolich (sp?) and 2:38 in Boston by Jackie Gallagher (RIP) which she then improved on with a 2:32 at the Nagoya Marathon. MacMillan puts a 32 min 10K runner at 2:30. Derate that a bit for the difficulty in NYC and the hills in the closing loop in central park. How fast does Gwen run an open 10K?
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Having said that, if she really has not run more than 10 miles, I would be curious to hear if she has done any 75-90 mile run weeks with double runs. If she has, I would not be worried about the 10 mile long run. She is genetically blessed, has superb and symmetrical form and can run fast at the end of a 2 hour event already.
But running "that fast for that long" can be a different animal....witness Mark Allen's disaster race at the Berlin Marathon 1994. He was supposed to go sub 2:20 and that never happened. He DNFd from wooden quads. I am not aware of a single pro male triathlete who has gone sub 2:20 (Ryan Bolton and Christian Bustos ran 2:22). Jackie Gallagher has that unreal 2:32 high bar from the Nagoya marathon. She also had a bronze medal from the Commonwealth Games marathon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/...3_Women%27s_marathon
Why do I know all this shit? Well for the longest time I was a marathoner who raced way faster at open marathon than my equivalent IM run times....so was alway interested in what the pros would do in the odd event they did an open marathon
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devashish_paul: Aug 24, 16 6:15