In sports camp when I was a kid, one of the counsellors taught us to mentally (or verbally) sing Do Wah Diddy Diddy while we ran, to pace ourselves. If you want to make sure you aren't going to hard, you try to sing the song out loud (because you should still be able to talk while running at a normal pace).
This technique served me well throughout my life, but it gets pretty boring having just that one song. So what they should do is have a service where you can download mp3s by tempo. For example, you type in MM=120, and you get a list of every single song that uses that tempo, so you can listen to a wide variety of music while you run, without losing your pace. Then, if you're training up and your pace increases, you can download some faster music to accompany you.
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