What is the running pace?

Pace is the term that runners use for the way they measure their speed while running. While speed is generally measured as miles per hour or kilometers per hour, runners do not have the patience to wait a whole hour to know how fast they have been running. Instead, runners measure their speed in terms of minutes per mile or minutes per kilometer. This type of speed measurement is what runners call pace.

Try to use running pace calculator to

• Determine how fast your pace should be if you have a certain finish time for the next distance or race. For example, find out what pace you need to keep to run 10 km less than 42 minutes or a sub 2:00 half marathon.
• Determine what pace needed to run to break the world record for the marathon. The current world record time for men is 2 hours 1 minute and 39 seconds. Hope you will see your average pace of the last workout 😁

Interesting facts

• The current world record time for marathon is 2 hours 1 minute and 39 seconds, set in the Berlin Marathon by Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya on 16 September 2018, an improvement of 1 minute 18 seconds over the previous record also set in the Berlin Marathon by Dennis Kipruto Kimetto, also of Kenya on 28 September 2014.
• On 13 April 2003, Paula Radcliffe from Great Britain set the new women's world record for a marathon. She ran the distance in 2 hours 15 minutes and 25 seconds. This record was held for 13 years until in 2019, Brigid Kosgei of Kenya running a marathon in 2 hours 14 minutes and 4 seconds.
• In 2011, the 100 years old Fauja Singh, finished the Toronto Waterfront Marathon, becoming the first centenarian ever to officially complete that distance. Singh finished the race with a time of 8 hours 11 minutes and 5 seconds, making him the oldest marathoner. Because Singh could not produce a birth certificate from rural 1911 Colonial India, the place of his birth, his age could not be verified and his record was not accepted by the official governing body World Masters Athletics.