Pace reference

5:45 per km pace

5:45 min/km is a solid everyday pace: quick enough to feel like work, sustainable with training. Here’s what it does over every distance, in plain maths — then the harder question of when to run it.

5:45 per km 6.5mph
Speed
10.4 km/h
Per mile
9:15
Treadmill
6.5 / 10.4
Even splits at 5:45 /km
1 km5:45
2 kms11:30
3 kms17:15
4 kms23:00
5 kms28:45
6 kms34:30
7 kms40:15
8 kms46:00
9 kms51:45
10 kms57:30

Race times at 5:45 per km

Every finish below assumes you hold 5:45 /km 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 /mi
Mile 9:15 9:15
5K 28:45 9:15
10K 57:30 9:15
15K 1:26:15 9:15
Half marathon 2:01:19 9:15
Marathon 4:02:37 9:15

Is 5:45 per km a good pace?

Honestly, the number matters less than the day it lands on. 5:45 /km is a solid everyday pace: quick enough to feel like work, sustainable with training. 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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