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 😃
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. 😊 🏃🏾
Thanks very much. It was! Just what I needed after work 😊
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
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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 😊
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Easter runny - first sub 28 5K
Sub 30 5k 😃😃😃😃
Another unplanned Oklahoma! moment ;) - my first sub-30 5k!
That was strange but I do like a plan
Finally! Sub-30
