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My Asics plan - how slow can you go?

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AnniemurphGraduate10
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Some good advice on here about an Asics plan to help with the preparation for my 10k race at the start of May. So I plugged in all the relevant info and it spat out a plan for me. Lovely!

But 5k tomorrow at 10.25km/min? Seriously, even for me that's slow. I walk faster than that on my 5-minute warm-up walk.

Looking at the plan, this is the only one at this pace and it does speed me up (slowly) over the next few weeks, but I am a bit worried about it. I might combine it with The Hill because that does slow me down :D

Any thoughts on running r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w-l-y?

PS - ha, the tag is about right :D

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benwillGraduate10

I am doing the asics plan for a marathon and it gives me slow runs, but I ignore it and just run at normal conversation pace also allows me to trail running as well i am always alot slower doing trails.

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AnniemurphGraduate10 in reply tobenwill

That's a good point - I think this is mostly a trail run I'm training for so I will be quite a bit slower. Perhaps I should try and slow down a bit tomorrow but not try and run in slo-mo :D Thank you!

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dagshar

Trying to slow yourself down is a good exercise and making sure you do your longer runs at a clearly slower pace is certainly beneficial. however, I agree there are limit! I struggle even to run at 8min/k unless it's uphill :-)

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AnniemurphGraduate10 in reply todagshar

By the end of my 8k surprise!hilly run last week I was running at 8.5 mins/km but I am still relatively unfit and unused to the longer runs, plus the hills caught me out :D The plan wants me to do this 5k tomorrow at 10.25, then on Sunday an 8k at 9.49 - 9.15. But then for the next two weeks it is speedier. I do have it set to only 2 runs a week as I'm a bit busy at the moment, so that might be the problem.

Ah, well. We'll see what happens!

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Bazza1234Graduate10 in reply todagshar

:) - sometimes I struggle to run at 8 mins per k too - unless it is downhill!! :)

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dagshar in reply toBazza1234

Sorry, of course, it's all relative. ..maybe better to say that it can be hard to run just 1.5 minutes slower than instinctive pace :-)

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AnniemurphGraduate10 in reply toBazza1234

ha ha, Bazza, good one :D

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IrishprincessGraduate10

I had that too when I downloaded an Ascis plan. I just ignored it because like you I honestly don't think I could run that slowly. I just ran as slowly as I could with the logic that the important thing is getting the mileage on the legs but what do I know?

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AnniemurphGraduate10 in reply toIrishprincess

I think it's about mileage too. And if I crash and burn on the day, someone has to come last, right? :)

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IrishprincessGraduate10 in reply toAnniemurph

You won't come last Annie. I promise.

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AnniemurphGraduate10 in reply toIrishprincess

Honestly, truly, I don't mind if I do.  Someone has to, and I have very low expectations of this one!

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secanGraduate10

"10.25km/min" is 615km/h... I think only you, the Flash and Superman walk faster than that. :P :D

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AnniemurphGraduate10 in reply tosecan

Ha ha, Secan - I was always useless at maths! :D Perhaps I'll do okay in this race after all!

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secanGraduate10 in reply toAnniemurph

You'll smash it! ;)

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misswobbleGraduate10

Annie there is a blurb about the slow runs in the pre-conditioning phase which goes something like there being lots of lower paced training in this phase. Don;t be tempted to speed up , you will have plenty of time to train harder in later phases. I suppose it amounts to save yourself for what's to come

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AnniemurphGraduate10 in reply tomisswobble

I did my best, missw, but even up the hill I couldn't do less than 9.5mins/km (is that right now, Secan?  :D)  When I tried to slow right down my feet plonked down really flat and everything jarred.

I guess it's also to do with still being overweight.  If I run at a really slow speed, I feel more self-conscious than usual.  Normally I don't care - I get on with my run and stuff what anyone else thinks.  I know there are people who run a lot faster and further than I do, and that's fine - good for them, but I'm doing the best I can. 

But running really slowly makes me feel fat and heavy and ploddy and clunky and useless again :(

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SlowstartGraduate10 in reply toAnniemurph

Annie that's so true! 

And why is it that you never bump into someone you know on a flat when your running great, looking good and feeling healthy, why do they always appear at the very top of the hill when you're basically shuffling the last few steps, red as a beetroot and sweating in a very un-ladylike manner

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AnniemurphGraduate10 in reply toSlowstart

Yes!  When you're dripping with sweat, huffing and puffing and looking as if you couldn't run for two minutes together!  It's a conspiracy :D

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GoogleMeGraduate10

I can show you how to run that slowly!

I thought I might be super speedy yesterday as I was putting some oomph in, pumping the arms etc and not bogtrotting and mainly on tracks.... still didn't crack 9mins per Km overall.

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AnniemurphGraduate10 in reply toGoogleMe

But I've seen you run and you are light on your feet.  I land like a ton of bricks when I slow down, and everything jars, I go very flat-footed and it is uncomfortable.  You don't seem to do that.  You skim over the ground.

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GoogleMeGraduate10 in reply toAnniemurph

I think that is possibly one of the most flattering things anyone has ever said about me! Thank you!

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AnniemurphGraduate10 in reply toGoogleMe

You are very welcome :)

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