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post #16 of 24
2/26/08 at 2:20am
Congrats on breaking the plateau.

I always wanted to break 5:00 on the mile and never did it, best was 5:09, and I'm probably at about 5:30 right now... some day. My best 5k is 15:51... sort of odd, but tends to be a pattern that my times improve as distance increases.
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post #17 of 24
2/26/08 at 2:26am
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Originally Posted by rjmaiorano View Post
Congrats on breaking the plateau.

I always wanted to break 5:00 on the mile and never did it, best was 5:09, and I'm probably at about 5:30 right now... some day. My best 5k is 15:51... sort of odd, but tends to be a pattern that my times improve as distance increases.

That IS weird. Your average mile time on the 5k is just a few seconds above your best mile?
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post #18 of 24
2/26/08 at 3:04am
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That IS weird. Your average mile time on the 5k is just a few seconds above your best mile?

My mile time is no competition, just times on a track... my 5k is was 'competition', though unofficial.

Haven't been able to find anyone to explain this... but another example is my first and only half marathon. My crew team entered on a whim, and before this the most I had ever run at once was 7 miles the week before. With no running experience or training for the half-marathon I managed to run it at a 6:24 clip per mile. I dunno...
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post #19 of 24
2/26/08 at 3:15am
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Originally Posted by rjmaiorano View Post
My mile time is no competition, just times on a track... my 5k is was 'competition', though unofficial. Haven't been able to find anyone to explain this... but another example is my first and only half marathon. My crew team entered on a whim, and before this the most I had ever run at once was 7 miles the week before. With no running experience or training for the half-marathon I managed to run it at a 6:24 clip per mile. I dunno...
I think it has to do with how warmed up you are when you start your runs. Whenever I start my run, my first 3-4 miles are always the toughest. Once I am through those, the remaining seem like a breeze and I go through them much quicker. By then, the muscles have been fully warmed up, and you have started sweating. Running is a lot about finding your rhythm and the comfortable pace. The first few miles are usually slow since you don't have the rhythm, the muscles haven't warmed, and you haven't found your comfortable pace.
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post #20 of 24
2/26/08 at 3:20am
agreed. but my warm up before that half-marathon was trash... to be honest I was hoping for a better time that day.
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post #21 of 24
2/26/08 at 8:24am
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Originally Posted by rjmaiorano View Post
My mile time is no competition, just times on a track... my 5k is was 'competition', though unofficial.

Haven't been able to find anyone to explain this... but another example is my first and only half marathon. My crew team entered on a whim, and before this the most I had ever run at once was 7 miles the week before. With no running experience or training for the half-marathon I managed to run it at a 6:24 clip per mile. I dunno...

I can't explain it either, but am similar. While I don't run, when I do solo centuries my average speed is the same as it is for a solo 1-2 hour ride. I think it is partially psychological and partially physical, my brain goes into a zone on longer rides and does not think about how it feels it just tells my body to do it.
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post #22 of 24
2/26/08 at 10:50am
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ok, I really don't want to turn this into SoCal worship (THAT would not be healthy...) although I am getting pretty good at the thread hijack...

but that is a sweet bike as well (I ran a bicycle shop for 5 years before attending law school, so I know a little about it...)

Griffin Vulcan with 650c Zipps (unless those are 700c, and you are really tall, but I don't think that is the case) ... that is a nice ride!

Do you still get out and ride a bit? I can't imagine NYC is too friendly for riding a bike around... although the last time I was there I saw some pretty sweet rides in Central park. They did not look they were doing much riding, more like showing off their bikes and pro-team lycra...

I rode a Trek 5200 (dura-ace, etc, etc) across Canada for charity the summer of 2005... 7300km's in 60 riding days... I guess that counts for the "distance" you were referring to...


It's for sale.
I didn't bring my bike with me to NY so I don't race around Central Park. They were 650s, I'm 6'2" and but the frame is pretty tall.
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post #23 of 24
2/26/08 at 12:18pm
I run 5k's for fun with my younger brother, he gets around 16 minutes - i get a measly 22-23 minutes. yesterday I did it in 25 minutes on a treadmill
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post #24 of 24
2/26/08 at 1:50pm
I find the same thing happens for me. The first three kilometers are brutal and then after that, it just seems like I can fly. Once I'm fully warmed up and into a groove, my pace keeps getting faster and faster and it hardly even feels like I'm breathing hard.

I never ran much for distance. I used to train in muay thai a lot and that was all I ever did for conditioning. I was talked into running a couple of 5k races and I ended up doing them in 21 minutes for the first and then 19 minutes for the 2nd. I did one 10k race on one of those days where everything just seemed to be perfect and I ended up coming in around 40 minutes. So I was able to average the same speed over 10k as I was able to average over the 5k race. Although, I did run the 10k almost a year after the 5k's.
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