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Sep 2023
6:48pm, 2 Sep 2023
16,512 posts
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Badger
And I don't know what the cheese is doing there either
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Sep 2023
6:50pm, 2 Sep 2023
8,198 posts
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Fizz :-)
Tries in vain to think of cheese joke. Fails.
Actually I’ve just checked my log and I lied. He was pacing 36 and brought us home in 34:13. He was still amazing though.
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Sep 2023
6:58pm, 2 Sep 2023
1,686 posts
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JenHB
When I've done pacing I puck a time I can do easily while being able to also encourage those I'm pacing!
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Sep 2023
10:54pm, 2 Sep 2023
13,379 posts
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Sombrero
When I was part of the core team at Rother Valley, we used to say to only pace a time that is a good few minutes below your current running speed. The fastest I ever paced was 24, when I was regularly running under 22 and it was comfortable but usually I would pace 3-4 mins slower than my current time. I think the most I've been away from the target is around 5 seconds, using most of the tips that Gobi and others have said.
We had one guy turn up to pace and was 2 minutes faster than he was meant to be - turned out he forgot his watch but didn't want to say. 
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Sep 2023
11:02pm, 2 Sep 2023
9,683 posts
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HunkyTeddy
If they introduce a 40 minute pacer I'm there
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Sep 2023
11:26pm, 2 Sep 2023
80,409 posts
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Gobi
The closest I got was pacing 16.5x when I was a low 16.x runner.
There was very little comms as I ran but I nailed the pace.
Currently I pace the 20minuters and I'm in 17.x shape. Would happily do 19 if needed but no quicker these days.
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Sep 2023
11:36pm, 2 Sep 2023
8,163 posts
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Pothunter
I caught a youngster with about 1km to go today. I encouraged her to stay with me and have a sprint for the finish which she did. I checked the results afterwards and it was her 9th consecutive PB!
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Sep 2023
6:08am, 3 Sep 2023
2,298 posts
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AndyS
If they introduce a 40 minute pacer I'm there
We're having a pacer event next week.
I was asked yesterday if I could do 40 minutes - I had to decline as that's quicker than I've been able to manage since February.😭
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Sep 2023
6:13am, 3 Sep 2023
2,299 posts
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AndyS
I caught a youngster with about 1km to go today. I encouraged her to stay with me and have a sprint for the finish which she did. I checked the results afterwards and it was her 9th consecutive PB!
Mile End is a 2 lapper. Since I'm slow now, as I'm getting towards the end of my first lap, I've taken to encouraging the folks finishing their second to lap me. A couple of weeks ago, one of them came to me after I finished and told me that had helped him bag a new PB, so that was nice.
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Sep 2023
7:21am, 3 Sep 2023
16,588 posts
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chunkywizard
If they introduce a 40 minute pacer I'm there
We had a 41 minute pacer yesterday. Our next pacer event will be the first parkrun in November and I hope to have a 40 minute pacer then!
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