Now I have graduated, I want to continue running and consolidating but I have a short-term goal. There is a 5.6k charity run, one of the big motivators for me to start C25K, in two weeks.
So, what is my best approach?
My pace is fairly slow, about 3.5k in 30 minutes.
So, should I stay with the 30 minutes and hope to increase pace in the next 2 weeks of runs? Or should I steadily increase duration to say 35?
Then, what about the race itself? I thought that maybe I could run for 20, walk for 5 and run for another 20ish. Does that make sense? Or am I better doing the running together? I would love to be able to run the whole distance - that would be great, but my guess is that the risk is too high.
(I did a Parkrun on Saturday by walking for 5 minutes, running for 30, walking for 5ish and running for the last 3ish. That was my best pace ever, which I put down to the novelty of the whole thing and the group spirit.)
So many questions...