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There's a 0.4-mile loop here in the neighborhood that we call Fancy Houses. I went out on one of our lunchtime runs last week and ran it as hard as I could -- just under two minutes. That's a 4:32-per-mile pace, which was good enough to best my coworker (my goal for the day), but certainly not an elite time.

Later that afternoon, sitting at my desk, I realized that my 0.4-mile pace was pretty close to Patrick Makau's world-record marathon pace. If only I could hold on for another 25.8 miles, I'd have a new world record! Obviously, that's impossible. But it got me thinking... What if we took the times of runners who are really fast and translated them into other distances?

Patrick Makau set the men's marathon world record of 2:03:38 back on September 25, 2011 in Berlin. Although his achievement is amazing, that same pace would hardly be considered a good 100-meter sprint. Same thing with Paula Radcliffe's 2:15:25. At that same pace, their times in the following races would have been:

Distance	Men's	Women's
Half Marathon	1:01:49	1:07:43
10,000 Meters	29:18.03	32:05.58
5000 Meters	14:39.01	16:02.79
Mile	4:42.93	5:09.89
100 Meters	17.58	19.26

The half-marathoners are a little faster, but not by much. On the other hand, some simple math shows that Zersenay Tadese's half-marathon world record of 58:23 woud translate to a sub-2 marathon if he could somehow hold on for double the distance. Mary Jepkosgei Keitany has the women's record of 1:05:50. Again, at that same pace, their times in the following races would have been:

Distance	Men's	Women's
Marathon	1:56:46	2:11:40
10,000 Meters	27:40.39	31:12.26
5000 Meters	13:50.19	15:36.13
Mile	4:27.21	5:01.31
100 Meters	16.60	18.72

As you'd expect, the 10,000 meters records are slightly faster yet again. Kenenisa Bekele has the men's record of 26:17.53, and Junxia Wang has the women's of 29:31.78. Those paces translate to:

Distance	Men's	Women's
Marathon	1:50:56	2:04:36
Half Marathon	55:28	1:02:18
5000 Meters	13:08.76	14:45.89
Mile	4:13.88	4:45.14
100 Meters	15.78	17.72

Kenenisa Bekele also has the men's 5000-meter world record. It's 12:37.35 -- 31 seconds faster than half of his 10,000 meter time. Tirunesh Dibaba has the women's record of 14:11.15, set on June 6, 2008.

Distance	Men's	Women's
Marathon	1:46:31	1:59:43
Half Marathon	53:16	59:51
10,000 Meters	25:14.70	28:22.30
Mile	4:03.77	4:33.96
100 Meters	15.15	17.02

Calculating pace when you get to the milers is pretty easy. Hicham El Guerrouj set the world record of 3:43.13 on December 7, 1999. If only he had kept going another 25.2 without slowing down he could have broken the world record by almost a half hour! Svetlana Masterkova has the women's record of 4:12.56.

Distance	Men's	Women's
Marathon	1:37:30	1:50:22
Half Marathon	48:45	55:11
10,000 Meters	23:06.47	26:09.33
5000 Meters	11:33.23	13:04.67
100 Meters	13.86	15.69

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Distance	Men's	Women's
Marathon	1:07:22	1:13:46
Half Marathon	33:41	36:53
10,000 Meters	15:58.00	17:29.00
5000 Meters	7:59.00	8:44.50
Mile	2:34.18	2:48.82

How fast could you run a marathon if you were somehow able to hold your mile time for an extra 25.2? Or your 100-meter sprint pace? Would you be able to compete with the elites even then?

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