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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!watserv1!watmath!gamiddle
- From: gamiddle@math.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
- Subject: Re: How fast is fast?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.150600.53@math.waterloo.edu>
- Keywords: 8k
- Organization: MFCF
- References: <1992Jul21.212518.6120@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Jul22.165426.16655@eye.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:06:00 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <1992Jul22.165426.16655@eye.com> paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul21.212518.6120@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> raymond@harp.ecn.purdue.edu (Ray Kamin) writes:
- > VERY roughly (and assuming that the Purdue track team isn't entered :-)), I'd
- > say that for the guys:
- >
- > -5:30/mi pace (~27:00) needed to win
- > 6:00/mi pace (~30:00) top 10%
- > 7:00/mi pace (~35:00) top 50%
- > 8:30/mi pace (~42:00) won't be in last place
-
- I can confirm this: I ran my first race two weeks ago (an 8K) after starting
- running in April. I finished in 42:50, and wasn't last in my age group. And
- it was fun, too.
-
- -Guy Middleton, University of Waterloo gamiddleton@math.waterloo.edu
- (+1 519 885 1211 x3472) gamiddleton@math.uwaterloo.ca
-