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ELI5 Is 20km/hr the top pace a human can run at distance?
Watching world athletics championship and was wondering..if marathon runners can run at approx 20km/hr for 2 hours why is pace for the 5000m only about 21-23 km hour (13-14 mins) ? Given the huge difference in distance I would expect that for the much shorter distance they could run faster than that. At what distance does human speed start to exponentially taper off?
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Watching world athletics championship and was wondering..if marathon runners can run at approx 20km/hr for 2 hours why is pace for the 5000m only about 21-23 km hour (13-14 mins) ? Given the huge difference in distance I would expect that for the much shorter distance they could run faster than that. At what distance does human speed start to exponentially taper off?
#education
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