Something useful

I can be useful. I got Brian to figure out the pacing for track workouts* (200's, 400's, 800's etc) based on race times. None of that if you want to go this fast then you have to train at this pace type thing... this is more for those workouts where you are told to do a gazillion 400's "at pace". To which we respond by whispering to each other:

"what pace are you doing?"
"no you're too fast... I'll go over here"
"so for a 47:30 10k I have to do 400's on what?"
"do you know?" "I don't know" "JJ do you know?"

And while JJ can tell left from right (which is better than me) he's not so good at the math side of things and instead just asks for a butt scratch or licks your face or sticks his nose in your crotch. So he's no use.

So Brian came back with a handy chart which I translated into hh:mm:ss form and put into Google spreadsheets and added a few lines. The result is this (click on it to get a bigger readable/printable version:


So essentially the bolded entries are common target 1k, mile, 5k, 10k, half, and full times and then we figured out what the individual paces are for that. I know there are a billion and a half calcualtors out there for this purpose but I just wanted to see if all listed nice and clear so that was born.

I'm going to do another one for swim pacing. And maybe a post on how to use the thing on the wall with the four coloured arms and numbers since the swim clock seems to challenge people.

*Which is essentially how the wedding planning worked. I said we're doing such and such and Brian would execute. We work well like this.