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Pick your race, add a recent result and the weather, and get your predicted time adjusted for hills and heat. Then get the full report by email: pacing, fuelling and course notes.
Use a recent all-out race on a fairly flat course in mild weather.
Find total climb and descent on the race website or in a Strava or Garmin file of the course.
Filled in with the typical weather for the race month. Change it to the forecast closer to race day.
Before we send your report: your gels
Check the label on the gel you train with. We use this to build your gel-by-gel race timeline. Already training your gut to take more carbs? Set your own hourly target.
Choose whether you use caffeine gels so we can build your gel timeline.
Get your full race report by email: your pacing plan split by split, carbohydrate, fluid and sodium per hour for this finish time, a gel-by-gel race timeline, and course notes.
One recent race predicts the rest.
Predictions use the Riegel formula, which scales your time by distance with a small allowance for slowing down over longer races.
A recent, all-out race on a flat course gives the best prediction. A training run will underestimate you.
The marathon prediction assumes you have done the long runs. Without them, expect to be slower.
Most runners start too fast. Even pacing, or a slightly faster second half, gives the best result.
Turn the prediction into a race.
5K, 10K and half marathon plans built on the Endurance Lab 7-zone method. See the plans →
Carbohydrate, fluid and sodium per hour for your race. Plan my fuelling →
A plan built around you and the Dublin course. See race coaching →