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In article <1ihhg5INN71d@meaddata.meaddata.com> chaz@meaddata.com (Chuck
Sedlacko) writes:
>  Recently, I've been looking over a book entitled "The Self-Coached Runner"
>by Allan Lawrence and Mark Scheid. The book has a format where you look up
>a section with a given distance and your goal time and it outlines a running 
>schedule for that race and your level.  I don't have any prior race 
>experience, and I had a question concerning some of the advice in the book.
>
> For example, to run a 45-minute 10K, the book states 
>
> "You are ready to train for a 45-minute 10K if you can run:
>
>    220 yards in 38 seconds
>    440 yards in 82 seconds
>    1 mile in 6 minutes 20 seconds
>
> To run 10K in 45 minutes you need to average 7:16 per mile."
>
> I don't understand what the paartial times have to do with running the 10K.
>If I could run at a 7:16 pace, why do I need to meet these other criteria?
>Other "prerequisites" are given for other levels and for all distances.
>
> Thanks in advance for any input.
>
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Don't put too much stock in the "required" times in this book.  I've always
found them to be much to conservative (i.e. you can run much better 5 and 10K
races than the book says based upon the shorter interval times).  For example,
I was under 43 minutes (10K) well before I could run a 6:15 mile.  I also know
several people who easily did my training pace at the time, who couldn't get
under 48 minutes.  The real problem is mental (at least at those kind of
times).