Question re pace

[Mollymot]

Out of interest is 7.36/Km very slow?? Just curious!

[Grimreaper]

My average pace is 9:50 /km ...and I m 37 years .. so now what will you say ..

as it has been mentioned all it’s important to run 30 min non stop as first goal and then slowly improve your pace (if you want to ) by doing strength exercise and practice run schedule to improve your pace .

However as you keep going out regularly pace will improve .. mine already improved from 10:30 to 9:50 😆😆and I will now attempting week 9 .

[Equi-geek Graduate]

Multiply that by 5 and you'll come in at a park run in about 38 minutes - so no - not slow for a beginner :). It also depends on incline/decline, running surface and all sorts of things. You can see what times others run on the Park run sites - results pages. Whether it is a very slow or not depends on your age. I'm in the 45-49 female group and I come in at 42% of world record pace (39 mins), but I was barely ahead of an 82 year old chap who was way 'faster' than me for his age group.

[Mollymot Graduate in reply to Equi-geek]

I would be in the same group as you. Just curious really as I feel I am running very slow - but maybe not as slow as I thought!

[Equi-geek Graduate in reply to Mollymot]

Don't worry, I feel really slow too, but we are actually doing really well. My friends are so impressed I can run that 'fast' in such a short space of time after only starting with 60 or 90 second intervals. The speed will come later and in a more controlled way, I think, doing it this way! But I still have a way to go too, so I defer to the better judgement of a Graduate, Mentor or Admin!

[Jay66UK Graduate]

No it’s a perfectly respectable speed. Faster than me. Roughly a minute/k faster. Damn you! 🤣

[Mollymot Graduate in reply to Jay66UK]

🤣🤣

[Ripcurlrana71]

Depends what distance you’ve covered. 🤔

[Hidden]

Not sure if you're just starting C2 5k.

I was baffled to begin with. For starters to run 5K in 30 minutes your speed has to be 10 kilometres an hour! No way I could do that!

I'm still on week 2 (finding it too hot atm) my speed is 7.3k but I am on a +1 gradient.

I'm working towards being able to run for 30 minutes at the end of week 9 podcast. I don't care how far it is. Then work towards the 5k.

Listen to your body if you don't think your working your body hard enough up the speed a fraction or up the gradient.

[Tasha99 Graduate in reply to Hidden]

I think she’s on about mins per km (outside de measure) not km/hour (treadmill measures)

[Jalapenolover101 Graduate]

I'm in the same age bracket, when I graduated last year I was running approximately 1k in 10 minutes. So my 40 minute runs where about 4 k. I never did get to that elusive 5k 😬

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

It is slow for a fast runner and fast for a slow runner.

The only person you need to compare to is your former self........ presumably a non runner.

You are doing great.

[sallenson Graduate]

If you're a jaguar, yes. If you're a slug, no. You're neither. You're you. And we like you that way. Whatever pace you run at... 😁👍👍

[Scooter69 Graduate]

I think the answer is no, but the real question is whether this is faster than you were a few weeks ago? The answer to that is surely yes - and that’s more important!

[jeffbird Graduate]

I'm trying not to think about pace/distance as I find it demotivating because I'm so slow but if you find the goal useful then maybe making it something to work towards after graduation would be useful?

Also it's soooooo hot at the minute that it must be harder. At least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

[MadDave]

I’m did 10:12 per mile when running (just done W5R3) and that felt slow and steady to me. I’m not sure what that is in Km though?