Distance v time

[Nannalyn53]

Can someone please help me u derstand this: at the end of my session today, although I had walked and run the whole 30 mins, my step tracker says I only went 1.8 km. Now I am 64 and very slow- my running is scarcely faster than my brisk walk, and hence I have a short stride length. So when I complete week 9, as I’m determined to do, it seems that while I may have run for 30 mins but it won’t be 5k. Is that right? It doesn’t really matter to me except that if that’s the case I’ll have to learn to run a fair bit longer before I can join a park run!

I’m very much enjoying the forums and finding them so informative and inspiring. Thank you all

[icklegui Graduate]

It sounds possible, people's easy running speed really varies widely! You don't say which week you are on at the moment but it does also sound like there's scope for the distance to increase as the running in a session increases.

There's all the time after graduating for gradually increasing distance and pace.

I have a tiny stride

Also, I have no idea how good those tracker things are. You may like to check your distance to confirm. If you know your route on a map, you can use something like mapmyrun.com to draw the map and see afterwards how long it was?

You have a great attitude towards it, you're doing great, you know there's no requirement to hit 5K at any particular time :D, you'll get there steadily!

[Nannalyn53 Graduate in reply to icklegui]

Thank you both. Today I did Wk 5 run 2 (in the hail!). Good point about the accuracy of my tracker. I’ll just keep plodding away and think about distance later!

[icklegui Graduate in reply to Nannalyn53]

Exactly! Most of us aren't doing 5K at graduation, but you'll have the running legs to get there in time

[Stuart448 Graduate]

I’ve just completed my last run but only managed 4k. Looks like I’ve got to run for around 40 minutes to do 5k or put a rocket up my backside 😂

[notoutofbreath Graduate in reply to Stuart448]

Did you just put the word "only" in front of 4K? Tsk You'd be surprised about the rocket theory, I too thought it would take me ages to get to 5K in 30 minutes... and then I went and did it by accident Many congrats on the graduation, onwards and upwards!

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Forget 5K...just run... and enjoy xx

So many posts about this... you just need to be running for 30 minutes after the nine weeks... simple as that

You are doing just fine

[Nannalyn53 Graduate in reply to Oldfloss]

Thank you - I confess I didn’t look for other posts on this topic. Still finding my way in all senses. 😉

[notoutofbreath Graduate]

"Couch to Running for a Full 30 Minutes and When You Add in the 5 Minutes at the End and the Beginning You've Probably Covered 5K" is the real title, but somehow it didn't catch on Yeah if you listen closely they word it very carefully on the app. Week 9 when you add in the warm up and warm down you've got 40 minutes to cover 5K (which I would guess most people do?). My *impression* is that it's the minority (certainly of women and then you've got age grading to factor in too) who manage 5K in 30 minutes by Week 9 - we could do a with a poll on that because I've not really seen the folk saying they HAVE done it!

[Nannalyn53 Graduate in reply to notoutofbreath]

Thanks, I’m sure you’re right.