Average time for a 6km run

Dtp79 · 23-12-2012 10:15PM #1

I'm back training recently and adding running to workout. My morning running circuit is 6 km. it's not a level circuit by any means. There are a few slight hills but certainly no sharp inclines. Running was never my strong point. At the moment I'm just happy to run the distance without stopping. What time goal should I be setting for myself.??I know strong runners ( definately not me ) would do it in 15 mins easily but I'm not trying to match their pace. Any help would've appreciated. Thanks

The Wise Owl · 23-12-2012 10:27PM

I'm by no means a strong runner and have no marathons in my list of achievements, so I'll start the ball rolling by saying I could do 6km in 30/31 mins.

smurph10 · 23-12-2012 10:35PM

I know a lot of runners but none that could do 6k in 15 minutes

Dtp79 · 23-12-2012 10:42PM

smurph10 wrote: »

I know a lot of runners but none that could do 6k in 15 minutes

I feel better already!! Am averaging 30 ish mins at the moment. Hoping to get below 25. I know a few tri athletes that do it 15 mins

professore · 23-12-2012 10:51PM

Dtp79 wrote: »

I feel better already!! Am averaging 30 ish mins at the moment. Hoping to get below 25. I know a few tri athletes that do it 15 mins

That's a pace of almost exactly 4 minute miles over 3.7 miles. Are these triathletes Olympic standard by any chance? Considering the world 5K road record is 13 minutes, equivalent to 15.6 minutes over 6K, I smell a lot of BS from your "friends".

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_Men's_5K_world_record

By the way, you're doing a good pace for a beginner.

menoscemo · 23-12-2012 10:51PM

Dtp79 wrote: »

I feel better already!! Am averaging 30 ish mins at the moment. Hoping to get below 25. I know a few tri athletes that do it 15 mins

No you don't. The 5k world record is 12:37. Someone running 6k in 15 minutes would go through 5k in 12:30

pconn062 · 23-12-2012 10:52PM

Dtp79 wrote: »

I feel better already!! Am averaging 30 ish mins at the moment. Hoping to get below 25. I know a few tri athletes that do it 15 mins

No you don't!! If they are then there are a whole load of unrecorded words records being posted around the place! The world record for 5k is 12:37 so do the maths! Don't worry about the average time for 6k, keep up the training and you'll be under 25 minutes in no time.

Edit: Damn you Meno!

BeepBeep67 · 23-12-2012 10:56PM

But...but...it was measured with my iPhone!

smurph10 · 23-12-2012 11:06PM

So who are these folks that are telling ye porkies.

Dtp79 · 23-12-2012 11:09PM

menoscemo wrote: »

No you don't. The 5k world record is 12:37. Someone running 6k in 15 minutes would go through 5k in 12:30

I do apologise. The time those guys were saying were for a 5 k not 6 k. I got mixed up. I'm the one running 6 k purely because its a handy circuit outside my front door. Apologies again

Ceepo · 23-12-2012 11:11PM

Dtp79 wrote: »

I feel better already!! Am averaging 30 ish mins at the moment. Hoping to get below 25. I know a few tri athletes that do it 15 mins

Thats funny. Tri guys doing 15 mins

Best advice i could give you and any one else for that matter is,
D'ont get caught up in times, just enjoy your running and the times will look after themselvs.

RayCun · 24-12-2012 10:53AM

Dtp79 wrote: »

I know a few tri athletes that do it 15 mins

On bikes

rom · 24-12-2012 11:07AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESuHkSOhmas

myflipflops · 24-12-2012 11:20AM

Bryan Keane would go under 15 easily enough I would guess.

I don't know Irish triathlon enough to know if anyone else would. I doubt there are many though.

Dtp79 · 24-12-2012 11:25AM

myflipflops wrote: »

Bryan Keane would go under 15 easily enough I would guess.

I don't know Irish triathlon enough to know if anyone else would. I doubt there are many though.

I'm sure when they say they run 15 min times there leaving out the fact that this was there PB that was set and it was probably set years ago and the time was 15:59.

myflipflops · 24-12-2012 11:28AM

Dtp79 wrote: »

I'm sure when they say they run 15 min times there leaving out the fact that this was there PB that was set and it was probably set years ago and the time was 15:59.

Haha. You are probably right.

I cannot wait to find out what poetic licence i will take with my PBs when I am older!

Dtp79 · 24-12-2012 11:35AM

myflipflops wrote: »

Haha. You are probably right.

I cannot wait to find out what poetic licence i will take with my PBs when I am older!

It's the same with everything when u look back on it. You benched more than u did, ran faster, were an inch taller etc

robinph · 24-12-2012 11:52AM

If the time was done on a triathlon then the distance was almost certainly not a 6km, 5km or any other accurately measured distance. The distance will have been measured along the lines of "Well it takes me about 15 minutes to run around the block, shall we call that the run leg? How far do you think it was? Well there was 5 post boxes that we went past do lets call it 5 miles? What do you mean we measure things in metric now? OK then 5 km it is."

Dtp79 · 24-12-2012 12:02PM

robinph wrote: »

If the time was done on a triathlon then the distance was almost certainly not a 6km, 5km or any other accurately measured distance. The distance will have been measured along the lines of "Well it takes me about 15 minutes to run around the block, shall we call that the run leg? How far do you think it was? Well there was 5 post boxes that we went past do lets call it 5 miles? What do you mean we measure things in metric now? OK then 5 km it is."

I doubt it's that inaccurate. Shur how hard wud it be to drive a circuit till u get 5 k

robinph · 24-12-2012 12:16PM

The measurement should be more accurate but have had people claim to do a 5km off the bike in 12 minutes to me before. That was probably an extreme example of a wrongly measured course, but the distance is less relevant in a tri anyway and with the start/ finish determined by where you can stack a load of bikes with easy access to some water then there is less flexibility in tweaking the course to make it exact distances.

walshb · 24-12-2012 12:59PM

I think sub 25 would be a decent time for an average runner/jogger.

RedRunner · 24-12-2012 01:55PM

walshb wrote: »

I think sub 25 would be a decent time for an average runner/jogger.

yeah id say thats about right for a 5k.when i started running my 5k pb was about 25 mins (2010). Now im down to 22:xx but still consider myself average. Sub 25 for 6k would be very decent I think.

Ceepo · 24-12-2012 02:47PM

myflipflops wrote: »

Bryan Keane would go under 15 easily enough I would guess.

I don't know Irish triathlon enough to know if anyone else would. I doubt there are many though.

I dont think so not for 6k, maybe for 5k,
I would say there is not a runner in Ireland that would break 15 min for 6k.

Ps well done on your recent 3k

rom · 24-12-2012 07:52PM

robinph wrote: »

The measurement should be more accurate but have had people claim to do a 5km off the bike in 12 minutes to me before. That was probably an extreme example of a wrongly measured course, but the distance is less relevant in a tri anyway and with the start/ finish determined by where you can stack a load of bikes with easy access to some water then there is less flexibility in tweaking the course to make it exact distances.

Sister-in-law is a good triathlete and I think she said that the course have about a 10% margin for error so really you can't compare them with a course measured on the track or measured road race.

Dtp79 · 24-12-2012 07:55PM

rom wrote: »

Sister-in-law is a good triathlete and I think she said that the course have about a 10% margin for error so really you can't compare them with a course measured on the track or measured road race.

So a more realistic time would have been 15 mins for 4.5 k

rom · 24-12-2012 08:33PM

Dtp79 wrote: »

So a more realistic time would have been 15 mins for 4.5 k

I don't know if that is for the full course or per discipline. So its not a 5K time unless done on a track or an officially measured race I would say. I would say that a watch 5k PB would be much more accurate I would think but I am open to correction.

Mint Sauce · 24-12-2012 08:42PM

My 5k PB is 23 minutes. Can run it comfortably though around 25-30 if out on a training run. So based on that 6k should be under around 35 minutes.

rom · 24-12-2012 08:58PM

http://athlinks.com/search.aspx?search=Events&term=6k take your pick

Dtp79 · 24-12-2012 09:25PM

rom wrote: »

I don't know if that is for the full course or per discipline. So its not a 5K time unless done on a track or an officially measured race I would say. I would say that a watch 5k PB would be much more accurate I would think but I am open to correction.

My track is measured by first me driving it. Secondly I use map my run app which also said it was a 6 k run so I can't be far off. I'm not too bothered if its off a bit cause I'm only using it to get back to train and be fitter

Average time for a 6km run

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