I mentioned in an earlier post, my first of the new year that one of my goals for this season was going to be to run a fast mile. I still want to do that.
Now that the UBC track is finished, it offers the perfect location for my mile attempts.
I don't really have a reference for my potential time, so instead of guessing at a whim, I'm going to use the McMillan Running Calculator to come up with a similarly arbitrary estimate of my potential. Warning, website has loud annoying music.
Using my 10k PB of 37:30 it estimates I could run a mile in 5:12. This sounds slow. Especially since at practice I've run them in 5:30. I find that the McMillan calculator for me shows the short stuff as being too slow, however my 5/10k times are dead on, and the marathon/half times are too fast. For example if I use my 800m PB, it gives me a mile time of 4:42, and my 400PR a time of 4:32. I guess this means I have speed but I just don't train enough.
That being said. My original goal that I set in January was to run a 4:30 mile as my A objective, however, before getting there I am setting my preliminary goal as simply breaking 5 minutes.
Last week I pushed at the end of practice to a controlled 5:42. Tomorrow will be my first attempt where I am actually pushing the limits. I doubt I will be near 5 simply because my training hasn't been focused on this, however, I shouldn't be too far.
Maybe I'll get lucky and have some pace bunnies for the first laps.
Wish me luck!
4 comments:
How did your mile turn out?
unfortunately didn't end up doing it. I've been fighting a cold and after coaching and running practice my throat was killing me. I think I'm going to try and do it tomorrow because I will be on campus again.
Dude 4:30 is pretty fast. I'll be pretty impressed if you can run that.
Let me know when you are going.
do it for pre, vince. do it for pre.
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