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Serious question, a guy at the track in Tulsa told me my pace math was garbage and it actually fixed my splits
I used to just take my total run time and divide it by however many laps I did, which gave me one flat number for the whole thing. After a 10k in Tulsa last month a guy standing near the timing board asked what my per lap plan was, and when I told him the average thing he laughed and said 'that's a report, not a plan.' He showed me how to figure out my slowest and fastest laps and build a target off those instead of one fake average number. Now I write down each lap time and the math actually tells me where I fell apart. Does anyone else plan splits that way or am I just doing extra homework for nothing?
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tessaperry5d ago
Confused on one thing though, when you say you build a target off the slow and fast laps, how do you actually pick the number for each lap on race day? Like do you go off your fastest lap from a workout and then add a few seconds to it so you have a cushion, or are you taking the middle of that range and calling that your goal? And what do you do when you hit lap 3 way off your target, do you try to make it up right away or just let it go and run the rest clean? That's the part that always trips me up because a plan on paper falls apart the second I go out too hot. Curious how you handle it when the math meets real legs, lol.
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