Regent’s Park 10K September 2014

Regents Park 10K Sept 2014

Today was a fitness test to get an idea of where I am with my training, so I can hopefully make a better decision for what pace to go out at for the Royal Parks Half next month. Given my recent training I knew a PB was probably on, perhaps 44:00 or 43:30 on a good day.

Conditions were perfect – about 15º and totally still. Not having a specific goal in mind I set out aiming to run purely on effort level. After fast start, aided by a downhill start straight I settled in to slightly sub-4:20/km pace, and felt very comfortable. The kilometres ticked away and felt good, and I picked up the pace a bit in the last kilometre to pick off a few guys I was with in the last lap or two.

Very pleased with 42:54, didn’t expect to take over two minutes off my PB! It now raises the prospect of a big HM PB – race calculators predict a 1:35 HM based on my 10K time. We shall see…

KMTimePaceHRElev
14:106:42 min/mi181-15 ft
24:227:01 min/mi19129 ft
34:196:56 min/mi190-2 ft
44:116:43 min/mi189-25 ft
54:267:07 min/mi18925 ft
64:227:02 min/mi188-4 ft
74:076:36 min/mi188-15 ft
84:247:05 min/mi19011 ft
94:287:11 min/mi18920 ft
104:026:30 min/mi190-21 ft
11:045:15 min/mi198-1 ft
Lap Time Distance PaceHR
Total 42:54 6.2 mi 6:54 min/mi189
1 4:06 0.61 mi 6:42 min/mi181
2 4:17 0.61 mi 7:02 min/mi191
3 4:18 0.62 mi 6:54 min/mi190
4 4:09 0.62 mi 6:41 min/mi189
5 4:29 0.63 mi 7:07 min/mi189
6 4:21 0.62 mi 7:01 min/mi188
7 4:17 0.65 mi 6:38 min/mi188
8 4:20 0.61 mi 7:04 min/mi190
9 4:20 0.61 mi 7:08 min/mi189
10 4:13 0.65 mi 6:28 min/mi191

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