Originally Posted by
Rollfast
The average human pace is between 3-5 miles in an hour jogging. All out running killed the first marathoner (who was delivering battle information to the Greeks or something)...he made it and collapsed and died.
But what was his time? I can just see the bystanders looking on after Phidippides died, and some of them must have been thinking to themselves "I wouldn't have died."
3 - 5 mph is walking speed. Even pretty slow runners can do 10 minute miles, which is 6 miles per hour. About my pace for my last marathon, but that was Crater Lake.