Posted 1 year ago
I’m sure that was my fastest 5K ever, for what it’s worth
For our Tuesday night group training, Rachel and I and the other Brooklynites did a 5K in Prospect Park. The idea was to run it as fast as we could, so the coaches could gauge our progress going forward.
I ran it in 27:37! It was strange to run what used to be a long distance for me, not trying to conserve my energy. It was rough, aerobically, but over all it felt good. This morning I put my time into the Runner’s World Training Calculator, which suggests times you might finish other races, and what your training pace should be. This is what it said:
Based on a 5 kilometers race at 00:27:37, your pace is:
8:53 Pace per mile
6.76 Miles/hour
5:31 Pace per kilometer
10.87 Kilometers/hour
3.02 Meters/secondYour projected finish times for the following distances should be:
1500m 7:42
the mile 8:18
3000m(3k) 16:03
3200m(about 2 miles) 17:11
5000m(5k) 27:35
8000m(8k) 45:24
5 miles 45:41
10,000m(10k) 57:31
ten miles 1:35:15
a half marathon 2:06:49
a marathon 4:24:23The paces of your different training runs should be:
11:08 min/mile Easy run training pace
9:19 min/mile Tempo run training pace
8:25 min/mile Maxmum oxygen training pace
7:47 min/mile Speed form training pace
11:08 - 12:30 min/mile Long run training pace
4:19 min/800 Yasso 800s training pace
Kind of cool, though I don’t think I could make any of those times for longer runs. I will be ecstatic if I finish the marathon in less than 5 hours.
I thought it was pretty important that I try to squeeze this training session between a particularly busy day at work and a gig my band was scheduled to play that night, so I lugged my guitar from Brooklyn to Manhattan in the morning, then back to Brooklyn for training, then back to Manhattan for the show… which it turned out I missed, because I didn’t realize it had an earlier start time than usual. So any pride in my accomplishments in the “race” was tempered by being pissed at myself for leaving my band mates in the lurch and for wasting a lot of time and energy only to miss a show I was really excited to play.
If you really wanted to, you could make me feel like less of a loser by donating.
EDITED TO ADD: This was the second Tuesday night training session in a row when the band went on at the Prospect Park Bandshell 100 yards away from where we were doing our post-run stretching. Last week it was Rufus Wainwright, and this week it was The National. So cool!
