14 mile fartlek was this pace fast?

No. Many college guys can average between 5:40-6:00 pace for their long runs. A 6:24 average is not that great. That means you were taking the jogs really easy.

Naw wrote:

No. Many college guys can average between 5:40-6:00 pace for their long runs. A 6:24 average is not that great. That means you were taking the jogs really easy.

I’m pretty sure the OP is a woman, judging by her username. In which case, nice job!

Lol yea I’m a girl

which ended up being 14 miles total (no stopping) at 6:24 pace. Is that good for a sophomore in college?

that you can run 14 miles is good.

however....

1. this isn't Fartlek. the definition of Fartlek is quite different to what you ran. this is a good and useful session, but it isn't Fartlek.

2. no one can say anything about you based purely on your average pace for this session. folks run their long runs at a wide variety of paces and the pace that's right for you may not be right for someone else. so, even iif Naw is correct, and many college guys do run their long runs at 5:40 - 6:00 pace we can make two observations:

a. those college guys are probably doing thier long runs too fast.

b. that pace will not be appropriate for a very large number of folks.

IMHO you need to forget this, "is that good" mentality, stop comparing yourself to others and focus on what's right FOR YOU.

train the athlete not the event.

cheers.

I’m a girl

cotton shirt wrote:

1. this isn't Fartlek. the definition of Fartlek is quite different to what you ran. this is a good and useful session, but it isn't Fartlek.

That's right. Many people call sessions like this a fartlek, but in principle these were intervals although measured by time and not by distance and often done off the track.

However, a real fartlek in traditional Swedish definition was a completely unstructured mixture of different paces and efforts. Something like warmup, then a surge up the next hill, relax on downhill, medium pace to the next big tree, a few short stride-outs to the next corner, again surging on a hill, a set of intervals along a street from lamp-post to lamp-post, whatever you like, you get the idea ....

Important never to measure the time or distance of the workbouts, just run good efforts by feel.

You are asking if that's "good". What are your race times? That's what you should pay attention to if you want to know how "good" you are as a runner.

LoneStarXC wrote:

Naw wrote:

No. Many college guys can average between 5:40-6:00 pace for their long runs. A 6:24 average is not that great. That means you were taking the jogs really easy.

I’m pretty sure the OP is a woman, judging by her username. In which case, nice job!

I'm pretty sure Naw detected the blatant complement fishing and pathetic humblebragging. In which case, just go away.

Lizzie444 wrote: I’m a girl

are you a girl who can read?

none of what I said is gender specific.

cheers.