What could I run (general predictions) for 10k this track season?

darkness wrote:

If the 27:30 8k is legit then you could break 34:00. the pace that you ran for 8k was 34:20 for 10k.

My actual race time was a 26:59.8. However, I heard rumors that the course was about 25-30 seconds short so I count 27:30 as my pr.

bump. Unfortunately for me, I am now dealing with a knee injury and the plyometrics aren't nearly as intense as I thought they would be. Any new predictions with this information.

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Any other opinions would be appreciated

Any other ideas?

You won't even break 40:00!

I thought I might post an update on my season. It's been awful so far. I just got beat in a 10k where I was leading most of the race (except for the first couple of laps and the last 100 meters) by a LOT and only ran 35:12. I have run only one other 10k which was a 35:22 which I won by over three minutes. I cannot get into a good 10k before conference as we don't have one on our schedule and I'm require to run in every meet on our schedule and thus can't find a good run to try and run unattached. I don't know why I'm falling apart this season but it seems that I've been getting slower as the season has gone along (could be the heavy lifting but I've only gained 5 pounds and I weighed only around 110-115 pounds before then at 5'8). It's unfortunate as I was really hoping to do well this season as I am planning on quitting college xc and track after this season to focus on academics.

You are severely underweight. Eat a normal amount and your mysterious injuries will probably go away.

39:00

curious about potential wrote:

one other 10k which was a 35:22 which I won by over three minutes.

Are you racing against girls?

Tigamenwinston wrote:

curious about potential wrote:

one other 10k which was a 35:22 which I won by over three minutes.

Are you racing against girls?

No, there actually was another guy in the race.

Too much to read, but I think breaking 40:00 is in your realm of possibility.

If breaking 40:00 is what you think I can run than I must be having an amazing season as I have run a 35:12 so far.

Any ideas on what is going on that could be causing me to struggle so much this season. I was doing 20 mile runs very consistently for a while (went for 5 weeks of doing a 20 mile run every weekend from mid-February to mid-March, but have cut back on them since entering outdoor season) since I may be running the marathon at outdoor nationals (I have a 1:16:18 and it doesn't look like we're going to have any more than 1 other B standard qualifier on the team). I don't really want to run the marathon at nationals, although I think I can finish better than I'm seeded because I have very little speed and will improve greatly relative to the other runners when moving up to the marathon. By the way, I have also been averaging about 6 hours/night a lot of the time if that makes a difference.

I forgot to add, our coach is really skimping on the plyometrics, and unfortunately he hasn't really had the time to show us how to do a lot of the exercises (he doesn't even have time to check the meet schedules, and I've had to tell him this season that no, there is not a 10k and such and such meet, because he didn't bother to look at the schedule despite it being posted on my college's website).