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

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May 2017
11:17am, 25 May 2017
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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.
May 2017
11:26am, 25 May 2017
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Old Croc
try the training page - there's a training groups thing at the bottom of that page
May 2017
11:41am, 25 May 2017
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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.
May 2017
12:14pm, 25 May 2017
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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?
May 2017
12:47pm, 25 May 2017
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The_Saint
The "Insights" on the Garmin Connect phone app and the website connect.garmin.com
does this
May 2017
4:35pm, 25 May 2017
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Chrisull
Thank you saint - that's the one.
May 2017
4:56pm, 25 May 2017
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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
May 2017
5:59pm, 25 May 2017
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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).
May 2017
7:30pm, 25 May 2017
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Ultracat
Interesting link, it would seem that only 25% of other runners train at a slower pace than me.
May 2017
8:36pm, 25 May 2017
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deslauriers
The normal distribution of VO2 max, with 48 as the mode seems unlikely.

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