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Statistics hunt - where could I find a breakdown of what average speeds runners run at?

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Chrisull May 2017 11:17am, 25 May 2017 11,062 posts	Quote Pin Chrisull This could be on fetch (preferably), or it could be anywhere. So I'm looking for a breakdown of what speeds people on average train at. So on say ~~strava~~ it tells me I've run say 8.30pace all this week, and so and so ran at 10.15 pace. However ~~strava~~ tends to be skewed towards the higher end runner from the stats I'm seeing. I'm interested in seeing what the average sort of groups per pace are. Say 5% run at 7 minute mile pace or faster on average, 10% at 8 minute pace, 20% at sub 9 minute pace, 25% at sub 10 minute pace etc. Any idea where I might look to find this information quickly without having to do the leg work to number crunch it myself? Thanks.
Old Croc May 2017 11:26am, 25 May 2017 28,480 posts	Quote Pin Old Croc try the training page - there's a training groups thing at the bottom of that page
Chrisull May 2017 11:41am, 25 May 2017 11,063 posts	Quote Pin Chrisull Cheers Old Croc. It's sort of... however it's also self-defining - so loads of people training for say sub 1.45 half but there could be some running 8 minute pace and some running 10 minute pace.
Autumnleaves May 2017 12:14pm, 25 May 2017 10,627 posts	Quote Pin Autumnleaves There was an article somewhere recently (sorry not helpful!) that suggested ~~strava~~ is skewing training paces because people are reluctant to log easy paced runs - which most of should be doing most of the time of course. Fetch has definitely produced some data on hours of training and results - he might be able to crunch some data for you?
The_Saint May 2017 12:47pm, 25 May 2017 6,015 posts	Quote Pin The_Saint The "Insights" on the Garmin Connect phone app and the website connect.garmin.com does this
Chrisull May 2017 4:35pm, 25 May 2017 11,065 posts	Quote Pin Chrisull Thank you saint - that's the one.
The_Saint May 2017 4:56pm, 25 May 2017 6,016 posts	Quote Pin The_Saint It is certainly good for the ego because it compares you with all Garmin users but how realistic it is against club runners I would doubt
Chrisull May 2017 5:59pm, 25 May 2017 11,066 posts	Quote Pin Chrisull I specifically wanted all users - as I wanted to make a point to my club, as opposed to our top club runners (i.e. that we run too fast and pitch our sessions too fast - slowest session is 9 minutes a mile and over).
Ultracat May 2017 7:30pm, 25 May 2017 11,631 posts	Quote Pin Ultracat Interesting link, it would seem that only 25% of other runners train at a slower pace than me.
deslauriers May 2017 8:36pm, 25 May 2017 185 posts	Quote Pin deslauriers The normal distribution of VO2 max, with 48 as the mode seems unlikely.