Pace Calculator

Without doubt the biggest enemy of both novice and elite athletes is starting a race too fast. Once you have done this there is no going back and what should have been a wonderful experience disintegrates into a miserable one!

Pace judgement comes with experience and practice. The pace calculator here will assist you in splitting your distance down into manageable sections.

Using the Pace Calculator

1). To generate split times:

If you know your time for a split distance (400m, 1 Km or 1 mile) insert it and press calculate, we’ll tell you how fast your other splits will be.

If you know how fast you run a known distance (say 5 miles), put the distance and the time into the ‘I can run’ fields and we’ll calculate your split times.

2). To calculate overal time/distance

If you want to calculate how far you would run in a given time, give us a known split time and an amount of time.

If you want to calculate how long it would take you run a given distance, give us a known split time and the distance.

Example

You feel that you are ready to run 10k in 43 minutes so you input the information into the calculator and it will tell you that you need to run each Kilometre in 4minutes 18 seconds.

It will also assist you in planning a training programme because you can input your run / race times and distance and it will give your pace times and from this you can pitch your interval / speed sessions at the right level for improvement.

You can use this tool in a variety of ways and will be of real help when it comes to pace judgement – even paced running is by far the best way to complete a race, particularly in events above 5k.