My first sub 30 🎉

I’m following my own 10k plan combining a mixture of my Garmin and Ju Ju’s magic plan, so I thought I’d do a little 30 minute run tonight after work and then one (or two) longer ones over the weekend.

Set my route; a nice little out and back to the next village and thought to myself ‘ill just run out for 15 minutes, turn around and run back’. My Garmin buzzes at each kilometre, so I knew roughly how I was doing, but when it buzzed at 4K I thought there’s no chance I’m going to reach 5k within 30 minutes. I wasn’t t even trying to reach that goal to be honest... I just wanted to get some head space for 30 minutes 😆

Well I only went and flippin did it! I ran 5k in 29.48 🤭 I can’t believe I’m writing that 😃

Happy running everyone! Believe in yourselves 👍🏼

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10]

You would be quite surprised but very pleased that you ran that 5K in a little less than 30 minutes, well done, next what you really want is to run a sub 30 minute 5k at a parkrun. 😊 🏃🏾

[Hidden in reply to AlMorr]

Yeah that’s the trouble AlMorr. I know I’m going to put pressure on myself to match that at park run now 😂

[AlMorr Ambassador Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

Just relax at parkrun, more likely to get a time of 29.47 than putting pressure on yourself. 😊 🏃🏾

[Buddy34 Graduate10]

Look what you just did. Hope you're so happy. Congratulations 😊👏👏👏👏

[Hidden in reply to Buddy34]

Thanks Buddy! I’m so chuffed - I had a massive smile on my face on my cool down walk 😄

[Buddy34 Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

That first sub 30 really does make you smile 😁😁😁😁😁

[Grannyhugs Graduate10]

Massive congratulations 🏃‍♀️🙆‍♀️

[Hidden in reply to Grannyhugs]

Thank you 😊

[Leosmit Graduate10 60minGraduate]

Wow, wow, wow! Sub 30 5k. That’s what dreams are made of! Well done!! Amazing achievement!

[Hidden in reply to Leosmit]

Thanks very much! I was so surprised 😮

[SteveWebbo]

Wow , I’m chuffed to bits for you , great stuff 🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏻‍♀️

[Hidden in reply to SteveWebbo]

Thanks very much 😊

[Jazzyrunner Graduate10]

That’s amazing, I’m so happy for you! (And so so impressed - I cant really imagine going that fast!)

[Hidden in reply to Jazzyrunner]

Thanks very much! You can totally do it too 💪🏼

[Jazzyrunner Graduate10 in reply to Hidden]

One day, maybe!

[Irishprincess Graduate10]

Well done to you and congratulations 🎉🎈🥂 what a fab surprise! Sometimes magical things happen when we don’t expect it 🤗

[Hidden in reply to Irishprincess]

Thank you that’s so true 😊

[Sandraj39 Graduate10]

It's a good, good feeling - well done!👍🙂

[Hidden in reply to Sandraj39]

Thanks very much 😊

[ktsok]

Brilliant, well done!

[Hidden in reply to ktsok]

Thank you 😊

[Deals1 Graduate10]

Whoop whoop 👍😀🏃🎉🏅🏆.

Fantastic achievement getting sub 30. Enjoy a weekend of smiling now

Wel done

[Hidden in reply to Deals1]

Thanks very much! I will 😃

[Debston Graduate10]

Yay! Funny how sometimes things just happen when you are not really chasing them! Bet you'll be smiling all weekend now. ☺

[Hidden in reply to Debston]

Thanks very much! We all surprise ourselves sometimes! I certainly will 😊

[damienair Administrator]

Fantastic and very well done to you. That’s a great milestone. The holy grail for anyone doing C25K is a sub 30 min 5K. Congratulations, you did it.

Damien

[Hidden in reply to damienair]

Thanks very much. Certainly the holy grail and one which I was pleased to have achieved 😊

[katherinejane1]

Fantastic- an inspiration! 👏👏👏👏

[Hidden in reply to katherinejane1]

Thank you that’s very kind. I’ve been called many things, but never that 😆

[JonathanP Graduate10]

Congratulations Rhedeg! Doing those longer distances helps your 5k time.👍

[Hidden in reply to JonathanP]

Thank you. They certainly seem to yes 😊

[Yogaandrun]

Congratulations, a great time from what sounded like a great run

[Hidden in reply to Yogaandrun]

Thanks very much. It was! Just what I needed after work 😊

[Hidden]

Hello on Sunday,

Mrs Santa aka the lovely wife also bought me a Garmin for Xmas a forerunner 235. I'm looking at stretching my legs from 5k on hope of achieving 10k at some point before old age. Just wondering did you make your own training plan if so how? Any guidance gladly received....

Thanks

Ian

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Hi Imc50. After I graduated C25K I had a Garmin watch for Xmas. I started off my training plan with a Garmin coach (with coach Greg) as it is excellent for tracking your fitness and seems to tailor the workout to you. It progresses quite quickly with stride repeats and progression runs thrown in to increase your speed where you can. I also threw a couple of park runs in that training plan too. I did that for 3 weeks and then started to combine that with week 4 of Ju Ju’s magic plan as they seemed to match up quite nicely. I find it easier to go by time than distance (apart from the park runs) So looking back at Garmin, I did a 35 minute, 50 minute then 25 minutes one week; a 35 minute, 30 minutes and then 50 minutes the next week and then 30 minutes, 30 minutes and 60 minutes this week. Slowly but surely the distance has crept in. As long as you do 2 shorter runs and then a longer run a week, you can tailor a training plan to suit you really. The Garmin coach is a great place to start as it’ll give you all your stats and then you can build it up from there to suit you but Ju Ju’s plan is also great to dip into too. Hope that helps 😊

[Joster Graduate10]

Outstanding! Well done!

[wyrdwolf Graduate10]

Amazing, well done! I can only dream of such a magical time