Lyndon said:Donovan Rebbechi said:The 2-mile is coming next week. No backing off the training for this either
-- I
just want to put something on the books. How will the heat affect the 2 mile
?
Given a 5k pace of 5:39 and a 1 mile pace of 4:51, what's my 2 mile pace ?
Only
one way to find out ... and that's what I intend to do next Sunday.
I find that I don't get much from peaking in mile races--and if I don't get my
weekly 400 session "fix" (one week before a race) I always get slower--so you
might not have given up much from training through.
I had a lot of milage and long intervals going into the race. Not much in the
way of serious speed.
Quoted message said:Keep in mind that a 5K on the track is normally 20-30 seconds faster than on
the road. So if you base your 2M pace on your recent 5K, you might go out
too slow. On the track, the equivalent 5K pace for your 4:51 would be about
5:29, with 2M pace being right in the middle of the two (adjust somewhat if
the temperature is different).
I'd be pretty happy if I could run that fast. I will try to go out carefully
anyway (5:20 or 5:15 if the weather is good) -- I can run reasonably well on a
negative splits strategy (my mile in May was 2:30/2:22)
Cheers,
--
Donovan Rebbechi
http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/