Your pace or mine?

[LoungeLizaard]

Hi gang - hope all you guys are doing well. I "fell off the wagon" at the start of roseabi 's plan last autumn, and ended up drifting, running here and there, keeping my feet active, but with nothing in mind. I blame the winter, cold rainy nights, always dark etc... but now here we are in the glorious sun (sometimes! lol).

While Abi was honing her plan and over the proceeding months, I kept going back to it, and reading other plans looking for insight, ideas, clarity and dare I say hope! Another VRB Jay66UK posted around October time that he had a "pace" and that was that.... It didn't matter how far, he would run it, but it was "his pace".

This then got me thinking, most plans talk about pace - Easy Pace, Race Pace, Hard Fast Pace, Long run etc - Confusing huh! So I started to read more about it and how to work out what it all meant and more importantly - what to do about it!

I came across the following article / calculator that allows you to enter a recent time / distance and it gives you your various "paces"

Of course speed comes with time and training. You don't need to be exact but it does give a very good indication of what you can aim for as part of your training runs. I hope this helps. (I'm sure there are more out there as well!)

runnersworld.com/uk/trainin...

(Also posted on HM&M forum)

[BishyBarnabee Graduate10]

Thanks for that info. Do you ever have the strange feeling that your legs don’t really belong to you? They’re moving away and you just look down in astonishment? And that “Am I really doing this?” feeling? I certainly wonder what I’ve got meself into with this running lark ...keep on runnin an postin😊🐞

[LoungeLizaard Graduate10 in reply to BishyBarnabee]

Yep, been there! lol

[orangeguy Graduate10]

Thanks for the link, interesting. I somehow seem to struggle to slow my pace much even when I know it would make the longer distances easier. ..