12 min miles slow for week 8?

[ade_engine]

I'm in week eight and loving it, I'm past the real pain I feel and enjoying the exercise now. No weight loss and at 12 minute miles feel like I'm very slow but maybe that will improve?

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

Do you need to be faster for some particular reason?

Speed will come naturally as you get more miles on your legs.

Don't worry about it at the moment, stay at a comfortable easy conversational pace.

You are doing great.

[Roxdog Graduate]

Sounds pretty good to me! Keep it at your easy pace and you'll soon finish without injury. Well done.

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Doing better than me, I'm at 13 minutes per mile. 😛 I can't even begin to get my head around Sir Roger doing a 4 minute mile!!!

[ade_engine]

Ok thanks for the encouragement, needed that

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

12 minute miles rock. I’ve been running for a couple of years and when I’m in training I aim for 36 minutes over 5k... so I’m often found running about your pace.

Pace will quicken a little all by itself over time... there are ways of speeding that process up, but these are for a little after the plan... and the olympics have been postponed so there’s no rush.