Half Pace

Today's run was intended to be at my (hopeful) half marathon race pace. I called these runs race pace in my original training schedule. After putting that together, I found a workout called a Steady State Run which is pretty much the same thing. The Steady State Run is done at a pace that you could run for 20-30 km in a race situation. In training these are done for between 25 and 75 minutes. For me this pace is between 5:26 and 5:35 min/km.

The total distance was 10 km, with 6 km at the race pace of 5:25. Next time I do one of these I'm going to make sure to slow down to between 5:30 and 5:35. I did this outside at lunchtime. It was cool (around -7 C) and a bit breezy, but the sun was nice and the roads were dry. It took me a while (about 2k) to get used to the pace, but after that it wasn't too bad. It was a hard workout, but I wasn't destroyed afterwards.