Friday, February 01, 2008

The Law of Club Runs

A coach friend of mine posted this today on the Runners World forum. It amused me, and is particularly relevant to my recent posts on training pace.

The Law of Club Runs states: " when any group of runners from the same club gets together on a club night, no matter how many runners are pleading injury, tiredness, needing to take it easy tonight etc, the actual pace of the group will always be at least 30 seconds per mile faster than the announced pace of the group. This is invariant to the pace of the group: 5 min milers just as guilty as 9 min milers."

Mind you, a bit of competition is not necessarily a bad thing!

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