When I was 25, it was 10-mile race pace. I did two sub-60 ten-milers in Central Park back then. Good solid long tempo pace.
At age 50, it was a tad slower than one-mile race pace. I would sometimes do workouts of 10 x 60 sec. @ 6 minute pace, with floats in between.
These days, at age 60, it's a pace I rarely touch. If I do 10 x 60 sec. @ 7:00, I'm doing very well.
But occasionally, kicking hard at the end of a 5K, I get there.
13:39, 22:39 5 mile certified, 28:21
CV pace. I always do work exactly at 6:00.00 pace. Mainly 1k-2k repeats with precise rest.
Tempo
6 minute man wrote:
People have a lot of different thoughts about a 6 minute mile pace.
For you, is it a:
Half marathon race pace?
5k race pace?
Easy long run pace?
Fast tempo run pace?
Mile repeat interval pace?
Mile PB?
Hopeless hobbyjogger pace?
Fast pace?
Would like to hear your thoughts.
Steady run pace 20s to 30s - 10k pace until mid 50s - 2 mile pace now, at 61.
To me, 6 minute mile pace is 10 miles per hour.
Used to be Half Marathon pace, at 60+ it's mile pace...
limitless wrote:
13:39, 22:39 5 mile certified, 28:21
35 years ago those times must have been close if not right on Olympic standard. Impressive my friend.
Slower than half marathon pace. Not bad for age 50 though?
6 minute man wrote:
People have a lot of different thoughts about a 6 minute mile pace.
For you, is it a:
Half marathon race pace?
5k race pace?
Easy long run pace?
Fast tempo run pace?
Mile repeat interval pace?
Mile PB?
Hopeless hobbyjogger pace?
Fast pace?
Would like to hear your thoughts.
Between 5k and 10k pace.
I'm metric so had to go and calculate. Turns out it's 2 seconds faster than my HMP.
With metric, it's about 4 min/km. A magic pace that would probably never be truly easy for a hobbyjogger like yours truly. So when you can actually run a marathon averaging faster than that, it's kind of hard to believe. Did I really do it? It's 6:26 per mile in case anyone's interested.
Well, this thread was definitely a confidence booster!
limitless wrote:
13:39, 22:39 5 mile certified, 28:21
yeah sure
6 minute pace keeps getting faster
In my early 20s daily comfortable never really raced
In my early 40s faster than comfortable but slower than tempo sub 16 5k at the time
In my early 60s right now a bit slower than 1 mile effort but with another solid block of base training 6 will be my 5000 pace.
One minute per mile lost over 20 years . The 6 minute pace effort in my 40s is like 7 minute pace in my 60s which just blows me away. I feel like I am flying can I really be a minute per mile slower am I now that old guy who just keeps at it? Perspective is so important. If you look backwards at what was the view sucks but if you look ahead at what might be it is still exciting.
I want to be like these guys what a goal!:
hoo-ah wrote:
A distant memory...
This, haha. It used to be my 10K pace, but now it’s probably my 400M pace.
Oh well, I still hope to get back into decent shape one day.
When I was younger 6:00 was a fairly easy pace
Now 6:00 is faster than VO2Max.
It was my daily training pace at 25. It is now 1/2 marathon pace at 50.
Daily pace in my 30's, race pace in my late 40's and late 50's.
I'm a 14 year old 800m Runner, 6min mile pace is my Anaerobic Threshold
Moderate run pace