... until the Sydney Half Marathon.
My programme called for an Easy run this morning which means 6:03/km pace.
I set out with my Imaginary Friend with an aim to complete 8km. My Imaginary Friend said "Heh, don't worry about the :03, just say 6:00 - you always try to get ahead of me anyway".
Who was I to argue? As usual, he was right. We finished the 8km in 45:37 at 5:42/km pace.
I wonder if the equation works backwards? As I understand it, the 6:03 Easy pace is based on me being able to run a Half Marathon in 1:50:00. So, as I finished this morning (and my other recent sessions based on this theory) faster than the prescribed pace, should I be able to run the Half Marathon quicker than 1:50:00?
I suspect that even 1:50:00 will be tough to achieve and I'm just not quite optimising my training (although it's close enough).
Tomorrow calls for 8 x 400m at 4:13/km with 3 to 4 minute recovery jogs between each repeat.
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A good guide as to how "easy" your easy pace was is how you perform tomorrow on a "hard" day. If the session tomrrow is too hard to complete either you did not run easy enough on the recovery day or the hurdle was just set too high on the hard day!
Thanks for the comment on my blog! Its a difficult question you ask about doing a particular time in the half marathon. There are pacing groups in the half so you could try and stick with the 1hr 50min group but if it was me, I would go out conservatively and see how you're feeling at the halfway point. If you're feeling good, come home harder and negative split. There's nothing worse than going out too hard, passing lots of people, only to die on the way home and have everyone pass you. Don't know if that helped!
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