When the 'rona hit I'd just ran a half marathon the weekend before (1:19:32), so decided to take a couple of down weeks, and then had the itch to start training again. Been thoroughly enjoying running since, the only thing I've dialled back on is longer runs as they really tax me, and with no races coming up I don't want to burn out.
Tempos/thresholds/interval workouts have been great, and I've been mostly following the Daniels 5k/10k plan, although I've sometimes done a slower tempo (at somewhere between half and marathon pace) vs threshold stuff so as not to totally wax myself. Been running the intervals and thresh-ys at the corresponding VDOT for the half, although in my last couple of sessions I've found that I've easily been able to run faster. Just running by feel rather than checking incessantly on the watch in a 5 x 1k session I hit 3:18/km for every rep with the prescirbed rest. I've basically been able to run everything a VDOT level or two higher for the past few weeks, although I'm aware this may not be entirely beneficial. I'm thinking that now I've been increasing in mileage as restrictions are lifted, adding more doubles and feeling better every week that I should run a TT to see where my fitness is.
Given how well the last few workouts have gone, I was thinking of shooting for 16:59 - so 3:22/km. The pace on workouts like the 1k repeats it feels optimistic, but possible. I'd love to say I could get some friends to pace me but that's incredibly unlikely, so I'll be doing this solo. Is there anything else I could do to give myself a good estimate of what pace I could go for?