A new PB!

[Alyss18]

After starting running in April this year.... never thought I would have achieved what I have done! When I first finally completed 5k it took about 42 minutes. My time last night was 31:48!!!!! I live in mid sussex so it's not exactly flat and my local parkrun is 4 1/2 laps around a park which half of which is uphill.... I cant make it to parkrun this week so I did my run last night. So so so chuffed to bits with this! My goal is to go sub 30 by april next year (would be a year running then) never ever thought that was possible!

[Smelliepoo Graduate]

That's fantastic! And running with a tablet on your arm can't be easy! That watch looks huge!! 😂

[Hidden]

Congratulations! That’s a fab time! 👏👏👏👍. My time is the 38 minutes mark. Cannot get it any lower. However I’m happy with that as I am 61 .

Anyway this is about you not me 🤣🤣! Once again well done!🤗🎄🎅🏻⛄️

[IannodaTruffe Mentor in reply to Hidden]

Are you spending 75-80% of your running time building stamina, by running at a deliberately slow, easy conversational pace?

You should only push your pace for 20-25% of the time.

[Alyss18 Graduate in reply to IannodaTruffe]

I do 3 to 4 runs a week one of which I push myself usually using the stamina podcast on c25k+, I do a longer run of around 5 miles which is very slow and the other 1/2 easier and slower. I also do lots of stretching and some strength work.

[IannodaTruffe Mentor in reply to Alyss18]

That's great.

My question was to Myfi, who seems to have got stuck.

[Hidden in reply to IannodaTruffe]

Hi IT. Yes I think maybe that’s it. However I’m out running 3 times a week

Where I live is farms, hills ,fields and lanes so sometimes I find it hard to run at a great pace all of the time whilst I’m out.

However I run for enjoyment rather than speed. This morning I found a new run which was some more fields and I surprised myself at how easy it was running in these fields. I have ran in fields before but here two seemed better.🤣🤣.

By the way I’m hopeless at % so I never take much notice of that🤗🤗🎄🎅🏻⛄️

Many thanks for your input. It was a nice surprise.🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

[SueAppleRun Graduate]

What a fast runner you are well done