Running pace?

[Bickie85]

I’m just curious as to what most people’s running paces are? I started off on week 1 averaging 15min/mile. Yesterday I just completed the last run of week 6 doing an average of 12.40min/mile. This does include the warm up and cool down time too. So I know my muscles are getting stronger and more conditioned to running (not that I can see any physical changes yet?). I have no idea what’s considered ‘speedy’ or ‘slow’ what changes have you seen? X

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

I have a few paces... from my “tailwalking a junior parkrun behind a 4 year old who doesn’t want to be here” pace (I never stopped running) up to “ouchie” with which I set my 5k PB. Somewhere in between I have my speedy, happy, chatty, and long run paces... that chatty one (conversational pace) is the one I watch... over the first 6-12 months of running my tracker showed it rising month on month with no extra effort.

Comparison of paces doesn’t make my speedy pace slow, which it would be to someone like Sir Mo, so I tend not to do it on this forum. What I can say is that on my regular runs I put in 4/10 effort and use my conversational pace... someone else may have to slow down to run and chat with me, I may have to slow down for others... but the effort level is how I prefer to measure a run.

[Tasha99 Graduate]

Start recording when you start running and finish recording before the cool down for a more accurate reading.

[SueAppleRun Graduate]

I was going to say exactly what Unfitnomore said, we are super slow but really proud we can run 5 miles even though it seems to take forever

[Bickie85 in reply to SueAppleRun]

5 miles! That’s amazing! I’m managing about 2 1/2 at the moment with consistency.

[John_W Graduate]

Your pace should look like this:

youtube.com/watch?v=9L2b2kh...(Not working as expected?)

[Bickie85 in reply to John_W]

Yes! I watched this! It really helped me do the 25 minute run yesterday. My feet felt so much better and less throbbing in my heels 😁

[John_W Graduate in reply to Bickie85]

Good! Forget about what other people do. Should I worry that I'm not as fast Mo Farah?

[Chezzer67 Graduate in reply to John_W]

Thanks very much, I feel much better about my pace now 🙂

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

The recommended pace for C25k is one at which you can speak aloud, clear, ungasping sentences, as explained in the guide to the plan.

We have such a range of ages, fitness, ability and disability on this forum that a comparison is futile.

Compare yourself to the only useful comparison.......your pre C25k self.