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Calculate your pace, finish time, or distance — for any run or race.
Improve Your Running With a Personalized Plan
Work with CM Performance Coaching for a custom training plan built around your goals, schedule, and experience level.
Get Your Custom Plan →The running pace calculator is the most essential tool in any runner's kit. Use it to find your pace from a race result, plan a goal finish time, or figure out how far you ran at a given pace. Also try the Race Time Predictor, Running Split Calculator, or Marathon Pace Chart.
This free running pace calculator has three modes — choose the one that fits your question:
You can type any distance or use the event preset dropdown for 5K, 10K, Half Marathon, or Marathon. Enter time in mm:ss or h:mm:ss format (e.g., 24:30 or 1:45:10). Press Calculate or hit Enter.
Not sure what pace to target? Here are finish times for common race goals across popular distances.
| Pace (min/mi) | 5K | 10K | Half Marathon | Marathon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:00 | 18:38 | 37:17 | 1:18:33 | 2:37:06 |
| 7:00 | 21:45 | 43:30 | 1:31:34 | 3:03:08 |
| 8:00 | 24:51 | 49:42 | 1:44:36 | 3:29:11 |
| 9:00 | 27:58 | 55:55 | 1:57:38 | 3:55:14 |
| 10:00 | 31:04 | 1:02:08 | 2:10:40 | 4:21:17 |
| 11:00 | 34:11 | 1:08:21 | 2:23:41 | 4:47:20 |
| 12:00 | 37:17 | 1:14:34 | 2:36:43 | 5:13:22 |
Running pace is the time it takes you to cover one unit of distance — typically expressed as minutes per mile (min/mi) or minutes per kilometer (min/km). For example, a 9:00/mi pace means you're running a mile every 9 minutes.
Pace is the most fundamental metric in distance running. It determines your finish time, guides training intensity, and is the basis for pacing strategies in every race from a 5K to an ultramarathon.
Speed is expressed as distance per unit of time (e.g., miles per hour), while pace is the inverse — time per unit of distance. Most runners prefer pace because it directly maps to effort on a run: a slower pace feels harder to maintain, and a target finish time requires holding a specific pace consistently.
The formula is simple: Pace = Total Time ÷ Distance. If you ran 10 miles in 1 hour 30 minutes (5400 seconds), your pace is 5400 ÷ 10 = 540 seconds per mile, or 9:00/mile.
Converting between min/mile and min/km requires multiplying or dividing by 1.60934 (the number of kilometers per mile).
Even pacing — running the same pace from start to finish — is one of the most effective strategies for distance races. Many elite runners employ a slight negative split: running the second half marginally faster than the first. Going out too fast in the first mile is the most common cause of a hard last-mile blow-up.
Use this calculator to set a target pace before race day, then practice hitting that pace in training runs so it feels natural on race morning.