So much comfusion

[hamit]

After graduating I have found it took a while to work out what I wanted to do and to settle into it.

So you just gotta have a plan! Otherwise I would slope off to the pub.

So not having achieved 5k during c25k At 72 I went out and did 5k......now what? Well I got myself a running watch as a pat on the back. I have now settled into the Galloway method which I have found is not as easy as I thought it would be but it seems to be helping my general fitness.

I am waiting for the Purple Snails to reappear😎🏃‍♂️on my runs

[Tazzy_wazzy Graduate]

Those purple snails are still there cheering you on. My aim when I graduate is to run 5k. It’ll probably take me about 2 days to finish, lolx

[hamit Graduate in reply to Tazzy_wazzy]

A good aim 5k but to do it in the 30 mins allocated in the last run I would need to do it in 6 mins per kilometre something I could not do so I settle for doing the 30 mins as asked. Endurance seems to be improving now so I will give 5k another bash in a week or so

Good luck with your progress hope to see you graduating soon. 😎

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

A plan, or at least some short, medium and long term targets are essential.

You are doing great, so keep at it.

[Hatman Graduate]

Only about 10% of starters run 5K in 9 weeks.

You are not alone in not getting there YET, Give yourself a chance matey, most of the kids on here are about half your age too. I was delighted to eventually do 5K in 46 minutes. And that was a very slow struggle.

Not having run since I left school, bit like you perhaps? What? 50 years or so ago? I was over the moon! You will be too, when you get there. The amazing thing is that you now seem to enjoy your running. My plan has become just to run for at least 30 minutes, three times a week. I take Rock my Run app with me on my phone and just plod round to the choons of our yoof. Slimmer, fitter, sleep better, happier. What’s not to like?

I do find that I am running just a little further in the same time, each week.

I’ll get there, in time. I hope you do too. Enjoy your running.

[hamit Graduate]

Thanks for reply. My time for 5k after grad was 50 mins but it was a real struggle so I am trying to up my endurance, think I would be really pleased to shave 5 mins off the time perhaps for my 73rd birthday.

Good luck keep on running 🏃‍♂️😎

[Hatman Graduate in reply to hamit]

You will be surprised. My thirty minute plods end up, often taking a little more road to fill thirty minutes, or I just get to the end earlier. Not far. The next corner perhaps? but enough for me to believe that I am getting better. A bit. I don’t worry about shaving hundreds of a second off a time. One more street before I turn back, round the edge of that bit, rather than straight across. In the same time. That is how I measure my progress. It would be great to knock five minutes off wouldn’t it? Was that a park run? Barcode and official time? Or just you measuring? I did a ParkRun in 46 minutes and loose change. I shall leave it a while before I go back to compete again. Then hope to blast my current Personal Best. I do go and volunteer as a marshal. That helps me see that I am not the slowest or the fattest or even the oldest runner going. It’s great to really be appreciated for just turning up and helping for an hour or so. Have fun.