Your easy pace

Oh god, probably 42-43 min, easy pace is 10 minute pace

jiggymeister wrote:

37:00.9

Easy pace in the 8:00-9:05 min/mile range.

7:20

43 minutes, 9:15-9:30 is easy in the winter. In the summer it is probably closer to 9:45-10. Definition of easy is probably variable from person to person. At this pace in my relatively hilly area (100ft/mile gain), I can comfortably talk with someone for over the duration of the run (1-2 hours). For comparison, most of my runs on typical days are in the 8:15 to 8:30 range.

Long long ago - 31:5X; in the mountains so easy run pace depended on route but generally no slower than 7:30 and no faster than 6:45.

Two decades later - 40:00 (plus or minus 2-3 minutes) - some really easy days I'll average 8:45-50 pace and I try not to go faster than 8:00 pace on an easy day. I still find myself trying to pick up the pace on easy days, which is not the point.

I'm 47, a hobby jogger.

Recent best 10K: 40:33

Easy pace between workouts: between 7:45-8:30 depending on how hard and fast I've run in the few days before.

I've increased from 40 mile weeks to 60's since that 10K leading up to a winter marathon, so it's dragging down my easy day pace right now, which is totally fine.

Run6556 wrote:

What is your 10k time and what is your normal easy pace in between workouts ?

34:08

I would usually run around 6:49-7:15 on 50 mpw

35:50

and around 7:40 (on 40m/week)

is this to fast?

Williamson wrote:

covid19 wrote:

This is a great thread. Good to see some top runners properly running easy. I see so many c. 40 min racing their easy runs at sub 8 pace with no clue,

Maybe they do have a clue. Maybe they are more interested in running than training. No doubt they would maximize performance if they went harder on hard days and easier on easy days. But to them, the daily experience of running is far more important than pretending they are professional runners just to get an age group trophy at the local 10k once a year. And for a c40 runner, running sub 8 miles with fresher legs is a lot more fun than slogging a bunch of slow miles on tired legs.

I fit this description roughly but want to improve training to get faster. M52, could do 43 at the moment, easy days are 8:00 to 8:35. I'm more fast twitch.

as a miler, 10kpb is 35:30 and easy pace is 7:20-8:00 depending on the day. Noureddine morceli did his easy days at 9 minute pace, and seb coe did them at 5:15. Try everything and see what works for you.

10k wrote:

jiggymeister wrote:

37:00.9

Easy pace in the 8:00-9:05 min/mile range.

7:20

What's that supposed to mean? I stated my time and pace.

CopperRunner wrote:

800/Mile guy, so don’t judge me too hard, but I should be at around 33-34

6:50-7:15 pace for 5 miles or less, 7:00-7:45 for anything more. If I’m too fried to run that fast then I figure I shouldn’t be running at all and I cross train instead.

HR varies between 145-160 bpm for a guy that maxes out somewhere around 205

Can’t believe that this is the only post within this thread that also mentions the distance of the Easy Run, and how the pace is then adjusted accordingly depending on the length of the run

Years ago when at my best, 10k PB was 33:39 roads / 33:52 track, and my typical easy runs were ~ 7:15-30 pace regardless of distance. Sometimes a little quicker (probably never quicker than 7:00) or slower (as slow as 8:00). The rule of thumb was ~ M-pace + 60s/mile, or slower with no lower limit, and my best M-pace was ~ 6:10. During those years I often ran with my wife at 9-10:00/mile.

The typically twice-weekly hard running, by contrast, was often very, very hard, and most weeks there was a "longer" run that would vary in length according to what I was training for, but was usually easy as described above (and once every 2-3 weeks might include some prescribed faster running).

I should add that when your aerobic training is poor, running slowly can feel very awkward and uncomfortable, but is feels very natural when well trained. In my experience, most novice runners drift toward running all their runs at about M-pace (which is never very good relative to their well-trained potential). I'm surprised that most of the posters in this thread, save a few, seem to be running appropriate easy paces. LRC must have evolved over the years, as this was surely not the case for most posters here 10 to 20 years ago...

never raced a 10k but I'd guess I'd be around 30:00-30:20

Easy pace: 7:00-15 (usually 1 a week when I'm tired)

Daily pace: 6:30 for all other runs

weekly mileage: 60

34:40

easy pace : around 8min/mile or 5min/km

volume : 70miles/week

10K-?? I never run....

Easy pace 7.1 mile/min