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pacing advice please..
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Good evening,
My current 10k PB is 38mins but I'd like to go quicker. I've been doing loads of interval and fartlek training which has worked to a degree as feel much more at ease at the required pace needed for a 36 min 10k and I'm sure i could maintain the effort...
However...
When i try to put it all together in a 10k time trial i either go off too quickly and blow up with a mile or so to go or go off too slow and leave my self too much to do.
Does anyone have any ideas on how i can get my pace right from the start and maintain it? its very off putting looking at my garmin every 30 seconds!!
any ideas would be grateful
Thanks, lee
My current 10k PB is 38mins but I'd like to go quicker. I've been doing loads of interval and fartlek training which has worked to a degree as feel much more at ease at the required pace needed for a 36 min 10k and I'm sure i could maintain the effort...
However...
When i try to put it all together in a 10k time trial i either go off too quickly and blow up with a mile or so to go or go off too slow and leave my self too much to do.
Does anyone have any ideas on how i can get my pace right from the start and maintain it? its very off putting looking at my garmin every 30 seconds!!
any ideas would be grateful
Thanks, lee
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As for your time something that works for myself and others is running your pace only. In other words run one of your measured 10k routes without your watch then just check the time when you get home that way you get a fel for the pace you need to set without relying on the clock.
Try it and see if it works for you over a couple of sessions through the winter.. Good luck with it..[;)]
As the others say though, its mostly about knowing your own speed. I'm pretty sure i could run two 5ks without any music and they would be pretty close in time.
What i think the best thing for you to do is not just to do intervals, but practice doing your goal pace at intervals, then reduce the breaks until its one continuous run. I think until you can 'feel' your pace then you may need to rely on the gadgets!
Adrian, My season went ok thanks 8th in bath and 36th in london were my best results. How did your season go?
I'm gonna rest for a couple of weeks now as i have to stay out of the pool anyway because I've had a new tattoo done!!!
I had one of 40.13. We did the same race and I stayed very close on the first lap. On the second I left him to go with some nice tempo group. stayed ahead (really had to) and finished in 39 min. Thanked himfor it, cause he really paced me during the beginning of the race.
On the other hand, I really wasted him on the second. [8D][8D][8D]