From Runner's World on-line

I scalped this from RW.com. First, I wish I could get a pace group like Lance. Wow. There is some serious talent. Secondly, 1:57:48 marathon?! Are you serious. That is a decent half-marathon time for many people. All I have to say, is one day I hope to run a 2:57:48 marathon, so until then they should hold all those conferences without me.

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Will Lance Armstrong Get A Little Help From His Friends In New York City?

"Runner's World" has learned that Nike is hoping to put together a marathon pace team for Tour de France hero Lance Armstrong at the ING New York City Marathon on November 5. Possible members of the pace team: 1984 Olympic gold medal marathoner Joan Benoit Samuelson, three-time New York City Marathon winner Alberto Salazar, and 2004 Olympic 1500 and 5000-meter gold medalist Hicham El Guerrouj.

Can A Human Actually Run a 1:57:48 Marathon?

The star-studded (scientists can be stars, you know) World Conference on the Science and Medicine of the Marathon in Chicago last week covered a wide array of topics pertinent to running, but none perhaps more intruging than the perennial topic of how fast humans might actually be able to cover 26.2 miles. Edward Coyle, Director of the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Texas, used physiological measures like VO2 Max to suggest that a runner is theoretically capable of running a 1:45 marathon. Factoring in a 10 percent slowdown due to fatigue and stress on the body, Coyle still came up with a 1:57:48 figure. And, using information culled by British exercise physiologist Max Jones on Paula Radcliffe, Coyle deduced that Radcliffe, whose world record is 2:15:25, might one day run a 2:13.

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