Training, Planning and Running the DW Race

Another lunch time dash. Today I intended to go just that little bit further and just that little bit faster.

I let my mind wonder while I am running, it roams all over the place covering subjects like my workload, the playstation, the pain of blisters, and contemplating whatever might be on my iPod at the time. Whenever I get particularly involved in a chain of thought I tend to slow down. So today I tried to think about running faster, and whenever I realised that I had slackened my pace I would push a bit harder.

Net result, exactly 5 miles in 41 minutes and 19 seconds.

Going back to that calculator thing, at that pace I would be now doing the half marathon in 1 hour and 54 minutes.

Okay, so that is only a couple of minutes faster but it proves that if I don’t daydream while I’m running and just remember to run fast, I can improve my speed and time.

Anyway, while we are here, have the predicted times based on today’s effort.

1500m 6:58
the mile 7:30
3000m(3k) 14:31
3200m(about 2 miles) 15:33
5000m(5k) 24:57
8000m(8k) 41:04
5 miles 41:19
10,000m(10k) 52:01
ten miles 1:26:09
a half marathon 1:54:41
a marathon 3:59:07