3k race pacing (Read 60 times)

savage16

posted: 3/15/2013 at 2:09 PM
modified: 3/15/2013 at 2:09 PM

I'm a HS sophomore, and I have the first meet of the year tomorrow. We're running a 3000m (weird I know) And I have no idea how to pace myself. I suppose I should just run it like a two mile, but I've never run the two mile enough to get solid with my pacing. For a 5k I pull about 5:55 pace and I seriously lack on the speed side of things... So if anyone's got some strategy I would really really appreciate it!

Prs: 7th 8th 9th 10th [season goal]

400 xx xx xx [57]

800 xx xx xx [2:15]

1600 6:19 5:55 5:24 [4:45]

3000 xx xx xx 10:45

3200 xx xx xx [10:20]

5k xc xx 19:43 20:15 18:27

mikeymike

posted: 3/15/2013 at 2:30 PM

My guess is you should aim for about 5:30 pace, or about 82/83 at the 400. Most likely though it will go out faster than that since it's a high school race.

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