title is the question. if it helps at all too, I'm more of a speed demon, i usually run the 800m but right now I'm the best the school has for 3200m so thats where I'm at.
title is the question. if it helps at all too, I'm more of a speed demon, i usually run the 800m but right now I'm the best the school has for 3200m so thats where I'm at.
My guess is if you run the mile in 4:58, you will run about a 10:40 so about 80 sec quarters. A little faster early, a little slower late.
I would say add roughly ten seconds to your mile PR. then try and shoot for that as your 3200 pace. So maybe 5:08's (10:16)?
I would agree with the first poster, when I first broke 5 in high school I ran 10:40s. The second poster's suggestion of 10:16 might make more sense if you had better endurance thanks to a more thoroughly developed aerobic base, but based on your statement that you're more speed oriented, I would say shoot for 80 second 400s and see how you do.
Blahbaba wrote:
My guess is if you run the mile in 4:58, you will run about a 10:40 so about 80 sec quarters. A little faster early, a little slower late.
The first half of this ^ is correct. The second half is backwards.
80 second 400s might be a reasonable expectation. Start with 81s and if you feel that it is very easy AFTER 3-4 laps then pick it up.
Just under 5:00 and 10:40 are good equivalents, but you said you are more of a speed demon 800 guy...so that tells me that you perhaps don't have the endurance to do an equivalent 3200 based on your 4:58 1600.
I saw a kid last year with a 4:52 1600 PR struggle to eventually get to 10:43 in the 3200, and he was NOT an 800 guy.
I say you will run 10:55 and won't drop a lot from that until you start upping the mileage.
So, the splits for 10:55 for you will be 5:22, 5:33, and the last lap will be brutal.
That's what you WILL run. You SHOULD try for 5:28 and then 5:27.
Good luck.
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