Split times for your goal race — even or negative pacing, printable.
| # | At distance | Split | Cumulative |
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Enter a goal time above to build your split table.
A split table tells you what your watch should read at each kilometer or mile marker if you're on target. Racing to a plan beats racing on feel: the most common race mistake at every level is starting too fast, banking "free" seconds early, and paying them back double in the final third. Write your splits on your arm, tape them to your bottle, or print this table as a classic pace band.
Choose even splits for flat courses and shorter races. Choose a negative split — starting slightly slower than average and finishing faster — for longer races: it keeps early effort honest and consistently produces better times. A 3% gradient means your first kilometer is about 3% slower than average pace and your last about 3% faster; 6% is a more aggressive progression best suited to experienced racers or training runs.
Splits are your times for each segment of a race — typically each kilometer or mile. "Even splits" means running every segment at the same pace; a "negative split" means running the second half faster than the first.
For 5K and 10K on flat courses, even splits work well. For half and full marathons, a slight negative split (2–4%) is the strategy most coaches recommend — start controlled, finish strong.
Generate your split table, press "Print pace table", cut out the cumulative column, and tape it around your wrist (clear packing tape makes it sweat-proof). At each marker, compare your watch to the band.
A marathon is 42.195 km, so with 1 km splits the final row covers only 0.195 km. The table shows the correct shorter time for that partial segment, and the cumulative column still ends exactly at your goal time.
Yes — a fixed table assumes a flat course. On hilly courses, run by effort on the climbs and let the splits average out; expect to give back 2–4 seconds per kilometer of net climbing.