On average, marathon runners are being slower year after year. In , Switzerland is first - Second on the list the Netherlands and third Spain The worst European nation, on the other hand, is the UK The worst performing nation globally is the Philippines followed by India , and Mexico At the bottom five are all Asian nations, except Mexico.
Only Canada comes in as the fastest non-European nation at 10th place with an average finish time of Looking at the average finish time across continents, you will find Europe positioned first closely followed by Africa From to , there have been some surprising changes in marathon performance.
Some nations have become better while others have become worse. The nations that have improved the most are 1 Switzerland minutes faster , 2 Russia minutes faster and 3 Japan minutes faster. South Korea, China, and Norway are the nations that decreased the most in performance. Respectively, they became minutes, minutes, and minutes slower. One could argue, however, that comparing the marathon performance across nations for men and women compiled would be unfair.
Some nations are male dominant, while others are more gender equal. Among the countries included in the study, India is the most male dominant nation and the USA is the most gender equal nation. When comparing each country, one should separate results for men and women. At the top of the list the fastest men , you will find Spain , the Netherlands , and Portugal Switzerland comes in 4 th at The slowest nations are still the Philippines , India , and Thailand The average running age is getting older, from 35 in to 39 in , according to the IIRM.
The average age for 5K runners is about The average age for 10K runners is about The average age for half-marathon runners is about The average age for marathon runners is about Consistently, runners over the age of 70 have the slowest reported finish times, across race distances.
The fastest marathon finishers are within the to year-old age bracket. Generally, women achieved their best half-marathon performance at an earlier age than men. Only about The oldest person ever to run a marathon is Fauja Singh , who ran the Toronto Marathon in at years old, according to the Associated Press. Running Statistics by Sex. Both men and women which is how this report categorized gender run their fastest during half-marathon races, according to the IIRM.
The average 5K pace is 7 minutes and 4 seconds per kilometer for men and 8 minutes and 18 seconds for women. The average 10K pace is 5 minutes and 51 seconds per kilometer for men and 6 minutes and 58 seconds for women.
The average half-marathon pace is 5 minutes and 40 seconds per kilometer for men and 6 minutes and 22 seconds for women. The average marathon pace is 6 minutes and 43 seconds per kilometer for men and 7 minutes and 26 seconds for women. Generally, women tend to start and stop racing earlier in life. The median age of female runners is about 36, according to the IIRM. Male race participation usually peaks at around 40 years old. Iceland has the highest percentage of women racers in the world.
Running Groups That Promote Diversity Information on running demographics around race and ethnicity is limited. Professional Running Statistics. Men's Running Records. Usain Bolt holds the current meter sprint record at 9 seconds and 58 milliseconds, according to World Athletics. Bolt also holds the current meter sprint record at 19 seconds and 19 milliseconds.
Wayde Van Niekerk holds the current meter sprint record at 43 seconds and 3 milliseconds. David Rudisha holds the current meter record at 1 minute, 40 seconds and 91 milliseconds. Hicham El Guerrouj holds the current 1,meter record at 3 minutes, 26 seconds. Geoffrey Kamworor holds the current half-marathon record at 58 minutes and 1 second. Eliud Kipchoge holds the current marathon record at 2 hours, 1 minute and 39 seconds.
To find out, I tracked down Shattuck via the white pages. He invited me to join him on a run, and we set up a morning meeting for late August at Sunset Park on the shore of Green Lake, a bucolic vacationland for upscale urbanites near Ripon.
The plan was for Shattuck to run at least When I pull into the Sunset parking lot, Shattuck has already run eight miles from his home and is slowly jogging in circles. He has no water bottles or energy bars, preferring, he says, to stash something to drink along his regular routes and fuel up on Gatorade and apples at gas stations. It takes some prodding for him to divulge that he does in fact feel a few aches: heel pain, tendonitis in his right calf, and tightness in his hamstrings.
We start toward Ripon, clipping along at a leisurely per-mile pace through the leafy development of Sunnyside Acres, into marshland hiding wild turkeys, and up a long and grinding climb called Spaulding Hill.
I want them to want to do more. Running lore is littered with seemingly incomprehensible feats of volume. More recently, in , American Pete Kostelnick ran 5, miles from Alaska to Florida in just over 97 days. John L. Parker Jr. The record is currently held by Indian Tirtha Kumar Phani, who, from June 30, , to June 29, , ran an average of No superhero works in a vacuum—we all need a little inspiration. Motivation is crap. You need passion. Shattuck certainly has the latter. During our initial phone call, his voice broke as he relayed the hardships Luttrell survived in Afghanistan.
I am never going to quit. But as we run through the countryside, I soon realize that his same intensity bubbles to the surface with most everything he does. He still managed to go to college and graduate from UW-Stevens Point with a degree in social science. After school he worked in various accounting positions in Madison while continuing to party. He ran during those years but not enough to combat the excess. By , his previously lithe six-foot-one-inch, pound frame had ballooned to pounds.
In , he ran the Chicago Marathon in , just 29 seconds under the cutoff to qualify for Boston, which he completed two years later with his brother, Steve. With that wake-up call, he doubled down on the natural endorphin highs he got from running, eventually increasing his mileage to and mile ultras.
Then, in the summer of , a friend from high school died from alcohol poisoning. In the aftermath, Shattuck dreamed up the 26 Days of Christmas, an effort to run a marathon every day for 26 days straight, starting on November 30, At most, you will want to run an easy three miles 4 to 5 days after the first distance.
If you like to run the day before a marathon, it should not be any longer than two miles. In order to be successful, you need to think of the two marathons as a unit—a relay race. Like most things in running, how many marathons you run in a year depends on you. Learn more here. Rachel Basinger. Pin Share 1. Follow Us.
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