Thanks - I guess you can tell from my first post that I was pretty happy I went through with it. I could have wimped out because of the weather - air temp was about 14 degrees with a 20 plus MPH sustained wind so wind chill was probably in the -5 range. Cold stuff but I have had so much experience with winter cycling that I had a good idea how to dress for it and I was comfortable. Plus it was in the urban core of one of the older first-ring suburbs so the houses being close together and the big trees and landscaping blocked a lot of the wind.

This was my first real actual 5K. I actually did a decent job:


How Does My 5k Pace Compare To Others?

Your pace 00:10:21 per mile (noted in red on the graph below) is in the 57.27 percentile for the 5k.

The graph below represents race results for over 10,000 5k runners in the US in 2010. Use it to see how you compare.

11:47 per mile is the average pace found in our sample data. The fastest pace per mile out of over 10,000 runners the was 4:49 per mile. The slowest of all the runners finished with a mile pace of 23:59.

Pace Distribution

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Age Group Sex


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Distribution of Runners Paces
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Distribution of Runners Paces
Pace - Minutes per Mile
Average 5k Pace by Age Group and Sex

Age Group Men Women Your Percentile Amongst Men Your Percentile Amongst Women
0 - 15 11:12:20 12:14:57 53.44% 66.91%
16 - 19 09:34:42 12:09:50 32.5% 63.16%
20 - 24 09:30:36 11:44:47 30.18% 58.56%
25 - 29 10:03:22 11:42:37 35.66% 62.42%
30 - 34 10:09:33 12:29:29 33.11% 65.97%
35 - 39 10:53:45 12:03:33 46.6% 66.01%
40 - 44 10:28:26 12:24:47 40.78% 69.79%
45 - 49 10:43:19 12:41:48 48.05% 72.95%
50 - 54 11:08:16 13:20:52 46.7% 76.68%
55 - 59 12:07:58 14:37:34 50.56% 84.93%
60 - 64 13:05:47 14:47:48 69.72% 84.71%
65 - 99 13:52:03 16:12:01 72.56% 94.35%
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