Learn to Pace Like a Pro Manage your pace to control your race
10-Mile and Half Marathon While there have been no scientific
studies conducted on the optimal pacing strategy for events in
the 10-mile to half marathon range, it's possible to extrapolate
best practices based on physiological principles and data
collected from world-class runners. From an energy-use
perspective, we know that races of this distance should be run
at or slightly above your lactate threshold pace. Running faster
than your lactate threshold creates a situation where the
aerobic system is unable to keep up with removing waste products
that cause muscle fatigue that are being generated by anaerobic
energy production. Consequently, it's important that runners run
slightly slower than this threshold for as long as possible,
particularly at the start of the race, to prevent waste products
from building and causing fatigue during the early miles. From a
psychological perspective, it's also important to hold back a
little at the start of a