Keeping on running

Hello, everyone!

I graduated on 9th November and since then I’ve been running every other day. I do thirty minute runs with a 5K every third run. Today I ran my first sub-30 minute 5K and I’m still grinning about it!

This running lark is flipping cosmic, innit?

[Fishypieface Graduate]

Wow that's awesome! Well done you! I graduated on the 27th July and I still can't do a sub 30 5K!! Ha ha, oh well, something tells me I never will, but I happy chugging along - you are so right, it is flipping cosmic!! You are doing a brilliant job

[Hidden in reply to Fishypieface]

Thank you! I didn’t think I’d manage it for another month or so and today I just set out for a thirty minute run without a PB in mind, expecting to do about 4.7K and halfway through my run I was all “Hang on, I reckon today might be the day” and flip me, it was!

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

Well done.

Always nice to hit a target. Time to set another one.

Your running will benefit if only 20-30% is fast, with the remainder run at a steady conversational pace ie. being able to deliver full sentences in one breath. The slower pace will develop other aspects of your running physiology.

Keep running, keep grinning inanely.

[Hidden in reply to IannodaTruffe]

Thank you! You always give such good advice. My next run will be a nice slow one, not that I’m super fast or anything now, but I’m all for that stamina-building. I’ve been exercise-biking on rest days and I think it might be helping to improve my VO2 max thing. (There’s so much to learn with running, isn’t there?)

[IannodaTruffe Mentor in reply to Hidden]

Thanks.

The more you learn, the more there is to learn.

An endlessly fascinating journey into discovering what your body can do.

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

It is... keep building up slowly and steadily and you will be amazed where you end up!

[Nobbywatts Graduate]

VERY impressive time. HUGE well done. But do take a total rest day sometimes, your muscles need to repair.

[Hidden in reply to Nobbywatts]

Thank you! And I do, fear not. 😊

[Hidden]

cracking stuff, I can't get anywhere close to that time.... Brilliant job!

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Thanks! I think all the planets were aligned correctly because I didn’t set out to do this today; I was just going for a normal 30 minute run. 😀