Pace reference

13:00 per mile pace

13:00 min/mile is an easy, base-building pace — and there is nothing wrong with that. Most of your week should feel this relaxed. Here’s what it does over every distance, in plain maths — then the harder question of when to run it.

13:00 per mile 4.6mph
Speed
7.4 km/h
Per km
8:05
Treadmill
4.6 / 7.4
Even splits at 13:00 /mi
1 mile13:00
2 miles26:00
3 miles39:00
4 miles52:00
5 miles1:05:00
6 miles1:18:00
7 miles1:31:00
8 miles1:44:00
9 miles1:57:00
10 miles2:10:00

Race times at 13:00 per mile

Every finish below assumes you hold 13:00 /mi evenly the whole way — a useful yardstick, not a prediction. Real races fade; the pace calculator does the Riegel-adjusted version from a race you’ve actually run.

DistanceFinish timePace /km
Mile 13:00 8:05
5K 40:23 8:05
10K 1:20:47 8:05
15K 2:01:10 8:05
Half marathon 2:50:25 8:05
Marathon 5:40:51 8:05

Is 13:00 per mile a good pace?

Honestly, the number matters less than the day it lands on. 13:00 /mi is an easy, base-building pace — and there is nothing wrong with that. Most of your week should feel this relaxed. If it’s your goal-race pace, most of your training should happen slower than this — the fastest way to a faster race is a pile of easy kilometres and a handful of hard ones, run on the right days. If it already feels easy, it’s a fine cruising pace to build your base on.

A pace chart can tell you the maths. It can’t tell you whether today is a day to hit it — that depends on your sleep, your legs, and the runs already behind you. That gap is exactly what Liftrun was built to close.

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