For instance, should the half mile feel very comfortable and mile should be a bit harder than tempo effort? Should I feel dead by about 2 miles in? What do you guys think?
For instance, should the half mile feel very comfortable and mile should be a bit harder than tempo effort? Should I feel dead by about 2 miles in? What do you guys think?
800m - Should be feeling great!
1 mile - should feel good and in control.
1.5 mile - starting to feel some stress.
2 mile - Starting to hurt
2.5 mile - in some serious hurting now. Feeling the burn in the legs.
3.0 mile Feel like crap. Everything hurts, no oxygen, legs heavy and barely able to move.
5000 finish - totally spent, nothing left, can't see great, stomach wants to throw up, can't stand up very well, staggering when walking.
Start line - hiccuping, dizzy, disorientated, argumentative
50m - swearing, shoving people away to make room
800m - sweating profusely, irregular heart rhythm, stumbling
1.5 mile - indiscriminately swinging at people near you, shouting at the top of your voice
2.5 miles - pulling runners toward you and putting your arm around them, telling them you and me are best mates ever
3.0 mile - vision almost gone, just a white light ahead, crying, not sure if you're conscious or in hallucinating in hospital
5K finish - full simultaneous evacuation of digestive tract, bowels and bladder, being dragged to safety
Minutes later - in hospital
While you should be hurting a little at two miles, if you are running well, you should also be excited and confident that you can crush your last 1.1 miles.
Milethon wrote:
While you should be hurting a little at two miles, if you are running well, you should also be excited and confident that you can crush your last 1.1 miles.
But then if it's just one of those days where you've got the flow and everything is effortless, you can PR with no pain or strain. They don't come along very often, but when they do, oh boy. Otherwise yeah, hurting at mile 2 and hanging on is about it.
Milethon wrote:
While you should be hurting a little at two miles, if you are running well, you should also be excited and confident that you can crush your last 1.1 miles.
I think this is a good answer. A good 5k is about getting to the 2 mile mark, liking your split time or position, and then thinking that you can possibly finish well, but that it's going to be really tough. There is a very fine line between that feeling, and feeling like you're probably going to fade over the last 1.1 miles.
Aside from that, things usually start feeling tough around 1.5 miles and you need to feel like you're speeding up if you want to hold pace. The 1 mile mark feels maybe like I'm 10 minutes into a tempo run. Brisk and steady breathing, but just fine.
You fastest 5k should feel like this;
The first 20 seconds should feel good as you accelerate just above your pace, and then settle into your pace.
The rest of the first mile feels uncomfortable because you are running faster than you legs are ready for.
Somewhere between 1 and 1.5 miles, you feel good for about a minute after your muscles are finally working in sink with the pace you are running, but before fatigue starts setting in.
From 1.5 to 2, the pain is growing more intense.
At the 2 mile, the idea of running another mile at this pace should feel nearly impossible, so you push that thought our of you mind.
The last quarter mile, you should be pushing yourself beyond what you think you red line is, and just holding on for dear life to the finish.
First kilometer feels great
Second kilometer Jesus Christ I have another 3000m to go
Third kilometer on the point of he'll
Fourth kilometer giving all you got not to slow down
Last kilometer trying to mentally give all you got to try to kick at the end
Last 400m, trying to kick but you can't go any faster.
Last 200m some how you actually have something left in the tank to kick.
Finish line puking your guts out on the ground screaming in agonizing pain.
Start line: I’m fine, I’m feeling good, I have no reason to be worried
1/2 mile in: I’m not fine, I’m not feeling good and I’m very worried
1 mile: holy crap I’m not even a third in and everything inside of me is about to be on the outside
1.5 mile: running is the sport of the devil
2 mile: I want to quit but my coach is gonna whip me if I don’t keep going *cries*
3 mile: I am in hell and I am suffering for my sins
3.09 mi: I don’t know if it’s even worth finishing
5 minutes after the race: crap, I didn’t PR. I should’ve pushed myself harder