By easy pace do they mean my easy pace or his! I'd be willing to bet his easy pace is my sprint.

Yeah - when I was in B-school (38 yo and slow) had a section-mate who is / was a serious triathlete - not to mention close to a foot taller than me (my 5'8" to his 6'5") - went for a run with him, which really meant that he periodically looped back to see if I was still alive. Not sure I really was alive for most of that run. The idea of running with Peter Reid now is something that could only seem realistic to me during a deep REM cycle.