Speed

[Loppers]

Nearly

Finished week 6 - I feel I run so slowly, what is the average pace?

[RonandHarry]

There isn't or shouldn't be an average. Run at your pace, one foot in front of the other is all it needs to be. I'm about to do wk7r3 and I'm very slow, distance isn't worth measuring, but I'm out there doing it and that's all that matters. Same applies to you and everyone else. Plenty of time to think about speed/distance once we have the endurance to run for longer periods.

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

There isn't... we are all different and our pace is different. Each of our own runs too, have different times and distances. I can run a route I have run a hundred times and my timings are never the same

Slow is good... slow works... slow keeps us injury free... but, as we run.. and with our strength and stamina exercises building up alongside our running, we get stronger... the more runs we do, the speed and the distance seem to evolve...

Just relax now into the lovely longer runs.. start slow and steady and keep it like that.

Your legs will begin to find their own, happy pace... Let them...they know what to do Enjoy!

[AndyIoW Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

I am never going to be fast at about 8.5 min/4pm but I can go for an hour like I did this weekend, unintended.

I think the following movie quote sums it up.

'Slow is smooth, smooth is fast'

As I use a HRM I find that my pace give me a fairly constant value between 120 and 135 and goes up on the inclines to about 145.

When I started I walked some the routes I now run and heart rate was 140 on the flats and nearly 160 on the inclines.

Just go at your speed and think of the benefits at the end.

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to AndyIoW]

That is great.. but for the new runners..they have to take it gently..and that is what we have to advise..😉

[AndyIoW Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

Quite agree and I did not intend it to come across that way if it did. The HRM figures were just to show that over time you will get a bit fitter but like everything takes time.

It takes me nearly 45 minutes to do 5k, which I have done 8 times in the last 10 weeks.

Even the shorter week day runs i do since graduating nearly 3 months ago, when you work it out from the times I am still doing the same pace.

[Tvoakes Graduate]

Don’t worry about the pace of everyone else. Run at your own pace - at the end of the day 5k is still 5k whether it’s done in 20mins or 2 hours! Speed will come with time!