You’re coming down in distance now.
Both runs this week should feel easy, as you taper for next Tuesday’s 5K or 10K
test.
I didn’t get a chance today to
recognize the winner of this term’s distance prize. It was Jannik (at 1:58 per
mile faster than the first week), followed by Claire (1:17) and James (55
seconds).
Thursday’s run will take you back where
this class started, at two or four miles. It will seem shorter now that you’ve
gone twice that far.
TODAY’S
HALF-HOUR RUN
(no
distances and paces recorded, though you might have checked them yourself)
Katie
Maca
TODAY’S
ONE-HOUR RUN
(same
info as above)
Erik
Jessica D.
Jannik
Rana
Claire
Jack
Julian
Arthur
LESSON
17: EQUAL TIMES
You can predict fairly accurately what
you’ll run for a certain distance without having run it recently. You can base
the prediction on races at different distances. Pace obviously slows as racing
distance grows, and speeds up as it shrinks. But how much of a slowdown or
speedup is normal? A good rule of thumb is a five-percent slowdown as the
distance doubles, or that much faster pace as the distance drops by half.
Multiply or divide by 2.1 to predict your time for double or half the distance.
For instance, a 22:00 5K equates to about 46:00 for 10K.