9:00 per mile pace
9:00 min/mile 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.
Even splits at 9:00 /mi
| 1 mile | 9:00 |
| 2 miles | 18:00 |
| 3 miles | 27:00 |
| 4 miles | 36:00 |
| 5 miles | 45:00 |
| 6 miles | 54:00 |
| 7 miles | 1:03:00 |
| 8 miles | 1:12:00 |
| 9 miles | 1:21:00 |
| 10 miles | 1:30:00 |
Race times at 9:00 per mile
Every finish below assumes you hold 9:00 /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.
| Distance | Finish time | Pace /km |
|---|---|---|
| Mile | 9:00 | 5:36 |
| 5K | 27:58 | 5:36 |
| 10K | 55:55 | 5:36 |
| 15K | 1:23:53 | 5:36 |
| Half marathon | 1:57:59 | 5:36 |
| Marathon | 3:55:58 | 5:36 |
Is 9:00 per mile a good pace?
Honestly, the number matters less than the day it lands on. 9:00 /mi 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.