Jskjsl wrote:
Read about what happened in the road racing training thread. How are things going? Praying it's possible for you to return to running again. Be well man.
Hey, thanks. Focusing on other challenges for now, although apparently still haunting the LRC boards, ha!
Re: 6:00 mile, I'll add --
2018 (age 59): Training pace for 3 x 1 mile w/4-min recoveries
2019: Easy pace on bicycle (10 mph)!
It could be my 50 mile pace!!! (On a bike ?)
It’s about my mile pace though ...
5k
Allen1959 wrote:
1973: 1-mile race pace
1975: 2-mile race pace
1977: 10K race pace
1983: Marathon race pace
2003: 10K race pace
2017: 5K race pace
2019: Only a memory
Fairly similar for me.
1974 between 5K and 10K pace
1990's 5K pace
2017 Mile race pace
Today. 1000m to 1200m race pace.
Long or slow tempo pace
It's gone from 10k race pace to 400 interval pace ;(
When I was
20 - A little faster than long run pace
40 - MP
53 - Mile date pace (maybe)
Lofty goal 5k pace (F 37), could probably hold for 1.5-2 mi at this point.
30 years ago 6:00 pace was what I ran for 7-8 miles on a recovery day. Now? It would be the fastest mile I've ran in the past 20 years.
Easy tempo
Between goal marathon pace and current half marathon pace. I often run 10 mile tempo runs right around this pace.
hobby joggers... hobby joggers everywhere on letsrun...
hoo-ah wrote:
A distant memory...
I last did some mile reps sub-6mm back in 2002. I keep telling myself I'm going to really have a go at doing just one but no chance.
6 min mile is a boring pace
40 years ago it was about my 10 mile race pace. Today I *might* be able to gut out an 800 at 6 min. pace.
I see so many similar comments and the young people don't realize that it will happen to them in time.
It's (not) funny how I still feel like I'm running fast at my 5k/10k race paces. My form feels pretty much just like it always did. I still feel like I'm covering some ground, but the clock begs to differ.
It is my 15k race pace, hopefully it will be my half marathon race pace by September =)
I don’t know. 40 mile pace maybe?
Still feels hard though and I don’t ever go that fast except during workouts.
Tempo. Longest I've been able to hold 6 min pace was 40 minutes before the wheels fell off.
FelonDJT wrote:
When I was
...
53 - Mile date pace (maybe)
Fast date! (But glad to see you’ve still got it @53)
Old and Slow wrote:
I'd have to guess, but probably 800 pace right now. I'm just now getting back into training, so hoping to get that pace for a mile soon. Lifetime it's a little slower than my 2 mile pb from the one year I ran track in high school. I'm almost 50 and would like to think that with some serious training it could be my 5k pb.
Why do people in the 40ties insist that they are old? Hehe, it is not just you my friend!
Except for that I copy your post, being back in business after 40 years away, I am hoping to make it my miletime (it is my timetrialtime for 1 k now), probably it will be too tough tempo for a 5 k.