I love RunnersWorld; I think most runners can attest to the greatness behind this resource. Anytime I want to buy something new, I try to do a quick search just to see if there’s an article about it, or if something’s aching, I try to find a Q&A that one of their writers recommends. Recently, I found the pace calculator that they have on their site. I’ve always known I needed to run slower and pace is something that I definitely need to work on; for my last half – the first 6 miles were at 8:00 pace, the rest was 9:00/10:00. Here’s what they calculated for me:
Surprisingly, before looking this up, I have been training pretty close to these times. Yippee for me! The only thing I really need to work on are my long run times. I feel a little bit better knowing I can slow down a bit.
Do you try to pace yourself during your training? Or do you just take off for a run?
this is awesome…I love it! Will be a perfect tool for training…would you mind posting the link to this site?
Totally forgot! Now you can click on pace calculator above to bring you to the site. Thanks, it really is such a helpful tool.
I always find it hard to go slow on a long run. I can do a 5k at just over 8min mile pace but then do 10k at about 9, but even in my training runs even when I try to go slow I end up still doing 9.15′s