All week I've been wanting to slow down so that I can get to grips with the pace I need to set for the 24 hour challenge. Go to slow and you risk not completing, go to quick to begin with and you blow a gasket.
On the whole during a race I'm okay with this concept of pacing. That is at my pace though, around 6.50 to 8 minutes per mile.
Running 100 miles in a day requires a pace of around 14 mins average per mile. Clearly I wont be running that pace, I'll want to build a lead and have time to spare.
However, running at this slower pace has proved quite a task. For example, today I ran parkrun Brighton with an anticipated finish time of 30 minutes. Like parkrun Leeds it is 2 big laps and one small one.
I set off and ran slow (or so i thought), then when I got to the nd of the first small lap I was already 1 minute up, then at the end of the 2nd lap, 3 minutes up. What the heck, I sprinted the last lap at sub 20 minute pace passing 35 people in the last kilometre (yes I actually counted them, Im obsessive). Ending up 6.30 minutes under target, 2 minutes per mile quicker than I actually wanted to run.
Slow Down Wont You.
I'll pace you for a 30 minute parkrun Russ - I'll go as fast as I can, and you can try to keep up (sorry, down) with me.
ReplyDeletethis kind of talk gets on my nerves
ReplyDeleteLiz, Just what Russ needs a pacer, we went out today and he managed to stick to a slow time really well (until he did an extra lap on his own)
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