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Nice Asics Ad - can you run marathon pace

  • 13-11-2011 11:31pm
    #1
    copacetic
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    Nice install/ ad, let's people try to match marathon pace with a pro over 60 feet.

    http://gizmodo.com/5859048/giant-video-wall-lets-you-get-smoked-by-a-marathoner

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPyBMsjVG94

    Giant Video Wall Lets You Get Smoked by a Marathoner
    It's pretty hard to appreciate just how blazingly fast top-tier marathon runners are going- for 26.2 miles. So this video ad for the NYC Marathon let you attempt a marathon pace for just 60 feet. Nobody could do it.

    The video wall features Olympian Ryan Hall, who with a mile pace of 4:46 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and a stride length of 6 feet 10 inches, is probably some sort of cyborg Darpa project and not an actual human. Now we just need video walls to demonstrate how much stronger, smarter, funnier, and better looking other singular humans are. Thank you for both shattering our self-esteem and leaving us in awe of the human species.


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  • #2
    BobMac104
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    That is cool.

    A long term goal of mine would be to be able to run 1 mile at world record marathon pace.


  • #3
    RayCun
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    BobMac104 wrote: »
    A long term goal of mine would be to be able to run 1 mile at world record marathon pace.

    You might want to aim for 400m 800m at world record marathon pace :)
    I know I'd be pretty happy with that


  • #4
    BobMac104
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    Aim high exactly!
    I do realise that a ~ 4.45 mile is crazy fast but who knows what a few years constant running may bring...


  • #5
    BobMac104
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    double post..


  • #6
    BobMac104
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    What would the 400m and 800m take at that pace?


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  • #7
    RayCun
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    1.11 and 2.22, more or less :)

    (and 4.46/mile is Ryan Hall's marathon pace, world record pace is even faster)


  • #8
    BobMac104
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    A 71 sec 400?


  • #9
    BobMac104
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    Thanks ray

    ya it think its 4.43 now. That was his boston time ( 2.04.xx right?)


  • #10
    RayCun
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    Yeah, that would be about his Boston pace. I notice in the ad they don't have big fans behind the people trying to match his pace :pac:

    71 seconds for 400m is very achievable, I'm sure there are loads of people on here who could do it.
    Maintaining that pace for a second lap, on the other hand...


  • #11
    ecoli
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    WR pace is 4.43 so effectively just under 71 seconds 400s

    400 -70.75
    800 -2.21.5
    1000m - 2.56
    1200- 3.32.25
    1600m (just shy of a mile)4.43.00
    3000m - 8.47
    5000m - 14.39

    My aim in life would be probably to hit the 3k @ that pace :D


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  • #12
    BobMac104
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    RayCun wrote: »
    Yeah, that would be about his Boston pace. I notice in the ad they don't have big fans behind the people trying to match his pace :pac:
    :D I was thinking the same thing myself
    ecoli wrote: »
    WR pace is 4.43 so effectively just under 71 seconds 400s

    400 -70.75
    800 -2.21.5
    1000m - 2.56
    1200- 3.32.25
    1600m (just shy of a mile)4.43.00
    3000m - 8.47
    5000m - 14.39

    My aim in life would be probably to hit the 3k @ that pace :D

    that 5000m time for me really brings it home how insanely fast they are


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