Everything we know about holding a pace, written plainly. Work out your number with the tools, then learn how to hold it.
Guide
Four things that keep you on an even pace through hills, fatigue, and a fast first mile.
Guide
The most common way runners blow a race, and how to catch the surge in your first strides.
Guide
Why the second half should be your fastest, and how to hold back early enough to run it.
Guide
Pace on effort, eyes off the screen, and learn what a pace feels like by ear.
Guide
Most runners run easy days too hard. How slow easy is, and how to hold yourself there.
Guide
Stay easy without a chest strap. Why it is hard, and how a pace tone keeps you honest.
Guide
Run it even, hold goal pace, finish with something left. Includes a 5K pace chart.
Guide
Don't race the first 2K like a 5K. Even pacing, with a 10K pace chart.
Guide
Respect the first 10 miles. Sub-2:00 and every other target, with a chart.
Guide
The 10-10-10 method, so the early miles never cost you the wall.
Guide and tool
Your ideal steps per minute, why 180 is not a law, and a metronome to raise it.
Compare
Spoken pace, threshold beeps, or a continuous tone. How each feels to run with.
How-to
How to set them up, and why a tone tells you more than a buzz.
Guide
Why GPS watches disagree, and how good filtering makes distance accurate.
Tool
Turn a goal time into the pace and splits to hold, or a pace into a finish time.
Reference
Every common pace in min/km and min/mile, with 5K, 10K, half, and marathon times.
Tool
Enter one recent race, see what you can run at every other distance.
Tool
Treadmill speed to pace, and the incline that matches the road.
Reference
What pace is a world record, a Boston qualifier, or an army fitness test?
Reference
The exact pace, splits, and equivalents for every popular goal, from a sub-30 5K to a sub-3 marathon.
The hard part of pacing is holding your number once you know it. Steady Pace holds it for you by ear, with a tone that rises when you slow and falls when you speed up.
Set a target pace. A tone rises when you slow and falls when you speed up, so you hold it without looking at your phone. No ads, no account, no subscription.
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