Whats a good mile split to hit in an 5k when my mile pr is 5:10?

I take it you're going to be running 5Ks in the upcoming cross-country season?

I think if you train and your times are going down and you're growing, you might surprise yourself.

Personally, I PRed on the mile my senior year en route to PRing in the 5k or en route to matching my 5K but I was a little more of a front-runner.

I think the important thing is

1) listening to your body. You can run 5:20 for the first mile if you feel comfortable doing it or you can run 5:40 if you feel comfortable doing it well and want to pace yourself evenly.

2. Focus more on being in shape enough to be able to do 3 miles so that it's no big deal at all. If you're in shape and have enough endurance, the 5K is an event where you can go out a little fast and hang on until the end.

3. But, I'd guess maybe 5:35-5:40. The adrenaline of the first mile with all the people and teammates around you helps you do the first mile quicker and you don't want to run the first mile that much slower than your competition, because the adrenaline of staying up with them will help you.

You can go from a 5:35-5:40 mile to the 17-minute range pretty easily too

For reference, I personally was a 5:34 miler junior year, and ran 5:32 en route to lowering my PR from 19:35 to 19:23 and it wasn't that big of a deal but I think my third mile was really slow. My best time was run at 5:38 for the first mile.

I never broke 5:30 until after Spring track my senior year and then I don't think I got down to 5:10 until college (5:14 in HS, 5:08 in college), so if you're at 5:10 and you have endurance, I think you can easily get in the mid-18's and comfortably break 20 on every course you run.

Seriously, the sky's the limit.

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Whats a good mile split to hit in an 5k when my mile pr is 5:10?

more details over here, last season my pr was 19:59 but iimproved tremendously theoughout sprig track.... my mile time is now 5:10 and im just wondering what a good mile split would be to run a time as best as possible without dying. thanks!

I would hit 5:55-6:00.

you're good, keep going