Splits look good. What I do personally is use a metronome. So once I know what my cadence is for each pace (5k and 10k) I set my metronome to that and just follow the beat. I used it Saturday for parkrun (cadence 174: target pace 4:15 per km), my splits were 4:13-4:15-4:15-4:13. Really consistent. If you go to your Strava for this run and scroll down to the bottom graph and click on cadence. What you’ll see for pretty much every rep is your cadence starts high and then starts to fall off leading to a drop in pace. This wouldn’t happen with the use of the metronome, it would stay consistent and so would the pace. Some people hate using it, for me it’s a game changer, and if doing efforts solo it can be a personal pacer. I use an app on my phone called “Metrotimer” and connect it to my headphones. Any questions about it just ask but I think it would really help. I often use it in races too.

Coach Simon 🍊