doesn't matter how fast or slow you urn . Once you move up to the marathon would you consider the 10k as a long distance running event ?
Hello Marathoners, do you feel like 10k is a short distance ?
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Distance, yes
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I found it an awkward distance which was a shame because it's the one I'd most like to have done well at. But it seemed too short to run like a long race and too long to run like a short race.
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I also find the 10K to be awkward for me. My theoretical pace relative to what I can run for a 5K is hard to lock into and maintain for twice the distance of a 5K. I can run half marathon pace so easily, something about that in between that is hard for me. I probably haven't figured out how to train for it.
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(Slow)10ker here, I find it the easiest distance to race.
Not so intense as the 5K, but also not so long as the half/full marathon. -
I was primarily an 800/1500 runner. The 500/1000 indoor was my bread and butter running 1:02 and 2:24. However I even thought the 10,000m was not that long running one in 29:05. I think it depends on the runner and how manyiles you hit a week. I trained 100 to 110 a week. The marathon however sucked.
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I'm crap at 10k so I like to think I am just a marathon runner at heart and will do well when I concentrate on marathons. I do want to improve my times though. I am useless at warming up and nearly always feel that I could hold my average 10k pace for 10 miles(my 10k and 10 mile pb paces are almost identical).
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If any distance is 'easy' you're not running it fast enough.
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I've run a whole lot of marathons and I never felt the 10k was 'short distance'. Every race felt like it was much too long. Hell, I remember one time getting ready to run a 400 (marathoner not trained to run one lap) and being really nervous. My wife asked me what was wrong and as I looked around the track I said "It's just so long.". I knew the pain I was about to endure and it was as daunting as a marathon to me.
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Banana Bread wrote:
I'm crap at 10k so I like to think I am just a marathon runner at heart and will do well when I concentrate on marathons. I do want to improve my times though. I am useless at warming up and nearly always feel that I could hold my average 10k pace for 10 miles(my 10k and 10 mile pb paces are almost identical).
Then your 10k pace is too slow smh -
It sounds like a few people have stumbled upon why the distance is contested.
It does occupy that space between marathon and 5k where it's too short to just sit at a controlled pace and cruise like you can do in a marathon (until the end) but it's not the balls out barn burner like a 1500/5000.
The 10k was the favorite of the road race scene in the early part of the running boom, now it's faded and lost out the half marathon. -
Easy then run faster wrote:
If any distance is 'easy' you're not running it fast enough.
If you go out too fast, any distance will not seem like a short race. I was a 14:50 guy in college and once went out in 4:34 in a 10K XC race. The next five miles were miserable and seemed to take forever.
BTW, I couldn't find it online, but there was picture of Thom Hunt in same race going through the 1st mile in 4:20 and looking relaxed. -
quickndirty wrote:
It sounds like a few people have stumbled upon why the distance is contested.
It does occupy that space between marathon and 5k where it's too short to just sit at a controlled pace and cruise like you can do in a marathon (until the end) but it's not the balls out barn burner like a 1500/5000.
The 10k was the favorite of the road race scene in the early part of the running boom, now it's faded and lost out the half marathon.
I agree. 10k was my favorite distance. 5k is half over before you even realize it; HM gets tedious after a while. -
Bib #1 wrote:
quickndirty wrote:
It sounds like a few people have stumbled upon why the distance is contested.
It does occupy that space between marathon and 5k where it's too short to just sit at a controlled pace and cruise like you can do in a marathon (until the end) but it's not the balls out barn burner like a 1500/5000.
The 10k was the favorite of the road race scene in the early part of the running boom, now it's faded and lost out the half marathon.
I agree. 10k was my favorite distance. 5k is half over before you even realize it; HM gets tedious after a while.
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A 10k is hardly worth putting on my running shoes for
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Lmfao a marathon is just a warm up run for me and my crew.
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not if measured precisely
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If the 10k is a race, I run pretty much at red-line from the gun now. Before I started running marathons I would start conservatively to make sure I had enough in the tank at the end, but now I know I'm strong enough to maintain intensity the whole way. (Disclaimer: I am slow.)
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Jim Walmsley thinks marathons are a short distance.
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When I went into full marathon training many moons ago (1979-1982) 10k was considered a short recovery run, 5k a warm-up run before intervals. But again, that was some 39-40 yrs ago.
