Former college XC runner just getting back into the sport. Here are a couple workouts from the last week. Both felt like 85-90% efforts. Could've gone harder but race is Dec 6th so I'm starting to taper. Would've started taper sooner but have only trained for 8 weeks total.
Based on these workouts, how fast should I go out? I'm thinking I'll run the first half in 1:26ish.
20mi -
https://www.strava.com/activities/436740551
9mi tempo -
3:11:45
If you'd done a legit marathon training cycle with proper mileage, I'd say you could might be able to break 2:45 based on how you closed that tempo.
But if your Strava log is accurate, it looks like you've been running very low mileage - and sporadically at that. 1:26-1:28 for the first half seems appropriate given that consideration.
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