I graduated c25k about 3weeks ago, I had a couple of weeks where I just did a run a week (getting about 4.2k and feeling I could carry on but not wanting to push it) and then last week I did two 3.5k runs in the dark on the roads and introduced some troubling hills. I knew my limit at 3.5k was because my route took me back past home, straight up a hill, running in to the pitch black so it was too easy to turn around and call it a night.
I found a new route for my weekend daylight run and comfortably ran 5.28k!!! I was so pleased with my self, I really could have carried on. The only reason I didn’t was that I started feeling a tiny bit of pain behind my knee and just thought it wasn’t worth pushing any further given I was already over a kilometre further than I’d been before.
I feel ready to start Ju Ju’s magic plan, so off I go tomorrow on my first run, which will be shorter than my midweek runs of last week. I’ve got three different routes in mind for the three runs of each week, all offering something different. The regular 5k run I’m going to run on a straight long flatish road, my long run I’m going to use the route I used on Sunday as it’s a good mix of trails, roads and a killer hill that rises 40m in 0.5k! I actually found yesterday that I can run much quicker on roads (no surprise really), I knocked about a minute off my pace when on the roads as opposed to the muddy trails.
Sorry to go on a bit, I like to throw all my thoughts down on here.
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Congratulations on that 5k... and very sensible to stop. Keep the 10% rule for weekly milage increase in mind... the magic plan will do this for you, especially if you’re starting with the short ones. Have fun out there tomorrow, take it nice and easy so as to make sure that knee is good.
While you’d be a couple of runs ahead by starting tomorrow, feel free to sign up to the November group if you want to join us, we have a sizeable group that will mainly be starting at the weekend.
Cool... it’s in the pinned posts (picture of runners on the Menai bridge). You’ll be stuck with me for a couple of months though 🤣
I had similar in my HM yesterday... two consecutive right foot down and pain in the ankle, walked it off and nothing since... I think I just landed my foot slightly strangely.
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Nice little 5k run- week2 
A Sunny Sunday 5K 🌞😎🏃♂️
