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NotThamesWater in reply to @HatBeard

Yasso

It would be interesting to do a data scrape from Strava of people's 800m & marathon times to find out what the actual correlation is.

You could also work out the correlation for other distances, a la Mcmillan (where
t2 = t1.(d1/d2)^k)

Current received wisdom is that this is based of a constant of 1.06

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deleted in reply to @NotThamesWater

I thought it was the 800m pace you could hold over 10 reps, so wouldn't it be difficult to get the Strava data? I'm skeptical, as I did my 8 x at sub 2 minutes 53 seconds, but I doubt I could successfully train to do a 2.53 marathon.

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NotThamesWater in reply to @deleted

800m pace you could hold over 10 reps

Good point.

I wonder how Yasso sourced the data - I can't find it published anywhere.

So I call meh on it's accuracy as a predictor.

As a workout - I guess 8 x 800 is as good as any interval session for speed work.

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