Learning how to pace yourself while running or finding a good running pace is difficult for most runners. It’s super common to start races or runs like a rocket ship and then find yourself falling out of the sky before you’ve made landing.
Or perhaps you need to check your watch constantly to have any idea if you’re going too fast, too slow, wildly off pace, or nailing the goal?
Time to learn how to pace yourself. A big part of that is letting go of the idea that there is one good running pace. It changes based on where you are in training, but learning to go by feel is HUGE.
You can either watch the video at the end of the article with my top running pace tips to see them in action or read all about it below! Let me know what you find most helpful so that I can keep creating what works best for you.
8 Key Tips to Pace Yourself
If you’re trying to figure out how to get good at running, learning how to pace yourself is key.
The goal is to learn how to settle into a specific pace and run it from start to finish. This is called a steady running pace, and it’s the pace for most easy runs and even most of your long runs.
On easy days this pace needs to be slow enough not to cause your HR to spike the longer that you run. While on long runs, we’re dialing in to the…
