If the extremely low surface brightness galaxy Coma P lies at 5.5 \pm 0.3 Mpc as recently proposed then it would have an extraordinarily deviant peculiar velocity of \sim 900 km s ^ { -1 } at a location where differential velocities between galaxies are low .
We have accessed the images from the HST archives used to derive the literature distance from the magnitude of the tip of the red giant branch .
Our analysis gives the distance to be 10.9 \pm 1.0 Mpc .
At this location the galaxy lies within the infall region of the Virgo Cluster , such that its still considerable peculiar velocity of \sim 500 km s ^ { -1 } is consistent with an established model .
Coma P has an unusually pronounced asymptotic giant branch relative to its red giant branch .
The dominant stellar population is just a few Gyr old .