alright, maybe its a step off the triathlon program, or maybe it might really help you out. But again where are you in your ability right now?
Who can run everything from 1600meters to a marathon at the pace that the mcmillan pace prediciton calculator says you can do for your fastest race? So for example lets pretend I can run 13.1miles in 1h 15min. 45 in. that would mean I should run a 4:43 mile all the way to a 2:39 marathon.
Who can hit all of their best times on the pace calculator? today this year not 3 -7 years ago, or when , way back then, I used to…
http://www.mcmillanrunning.com/mcmillanrunningcalculator.htm
I did a 4:47mile on Tuesday (I think I could do the 4:43 if/when I try it again. But if you try and your off just move onto the next pace calculation the next workout. see how many you can do. you may need to find your fastest event and use that as your pace prediciton calculator, not your most recent.
You might find that you really improve your run leg portion in your next tri, or kill your PR in the next road race. Make it HURT!
see you at the races.
Thanks for the link…interesting stuff. I’ll need to give it a try.
I use that calculator all the time, and based on my current 10k PR, I have done 1600m, 2 mile, and 5k within a couple seconds of the estimated time. In fact my 5k time was 4 seconds faster than the estimate.
The real test for me will be going the other direction…estimates for distances greater than 10k. I have my first half on May 2, so I’ll see then if the trend continues.
Tells me what I already know - relatively fast at short, relatively slow at long.
If I put in my marathon PR, I can easily hit all the other times.
If I put in my 10K PR, I can hit everything shorter than 10K and nothing over 10K
If I put in my mile time, looks like my marathon is 40 minutes too slow!
Tells me what I already know - relatively fast at short, relatively slow at long.
If I put in my marathon PR, I can easily hit all the other times.
If I put in my 10K PR, I can hit everything shorter than 10K and nothing over 10K
If I put in my mile time, looks like my marathon is 40 minutes too slow!
The Mcmillen tables assume that you are a very high mileage runner and trained properly at each distance. During the winter when I was strictly doing 1/2M training my 1/2M to 5K was right on the money with the table. I wouldn’t have even attempted to go a full M however, on the mileage I was doing and I’m certain I would have been way off the predicted M time. I probably would have tailed off below 5K also because I had no leg speed and did nothing much faster than 1/2M pace.
JJ
I ran a half marathon in 1:34:55 on February 15.
6 weeks later, I ran a 20 mile race. McMillan gave me a 2:30; I ran 2:33. I went out too fast. Daniel’s told me I should have run a 2:27 which means I REALLY screwed up 
I have a 5k coming up and will be curious to see where that fits in on the whole calculator thing.
Neat post.
Good idea! We should set up some sort of schedule, where we do one of the runs each week, or something along those lines.
I was thinking the same thing, add it as part of the killer workout of the week. start out with good warm up and then do the next on the list pace calculated distance, finish it with some other intervals.
time it so that I run the Half Marathon May 17th at Colfax.
Want to run let me know, want to ride, and do some killer bike workouts, Lets do it.
I’m in, If it involves me creating my own pain threshold and pushing hard, I’ll do it!. makes racing a little more like you have pushed it harder before. like you still have more to go.
Pretty long post to brag about your 4:40 mile. Is your FTP 300+ too?