It's probably to fast tho. Check the VDOT calculator. Don't use the fast end of the scale for your answer. Thats for easy days when it is 3-4 days between hard sessions. If the sessions occur twice a week or more often, your easy pace should probably be 8:00 to 8:30.
Yes my xc 5k pr this fall was 17:24 for refrence
Ok with this information, I think you should run easy at 7:30-8:15 as easy pace. No faster than 7:30.
CalvinRange wrote:
Yes my xc 5k pr this fall was 17:24 for refrence
You’re right in the range of a bunch of my guys.
They kept wanting to run their easy runs too hard and run their workouts too hard. We crashed and burned at the end of the season