Editing Talk:Speed (section)

== Average Jogging Speed or World Class Marathoner? ==

A world class time for a marathon is less than 2.5 hours. That translates into about 16.8 km/hr or 10.5 miles /hr. While it would be wonderful if we all jogged at 10 miles / hr and could dream of hitting record paces if we trained a few extra hours everyday, these atheletes are slightly out of the league of the "average long distance jogger".


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I agree.  As an avid runner myself who enjoys running 10k or so every other day,  I never get those kinds of speeds.  I have a GPS watch which tells me my speed, and If im feeling good, I can keep up 13km/h for 30 minutes.  Then I come here and read the average speed is 16kph for long distance.  Theres no way that can be accurate.  I can see it being possible for the professional marathon runners,  but I myself, am already considered above average I think.  I would say an average run speed, based on my observations of other people, is around 9km per hour.[[User:007craft|007craft]] 16:31, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

:I would say 5-6 mi/h or about 8-10 km/h could be considered reasonably "average" for a long distance runner. For a concrete example, the median finishing time for the last New York marathon was about 4:39, which corresponds to a speed of 5.6 mi/h. [[User:Itub|Itub]] 16:11, 19 June 2006 (UTC)