First 5K!! 😊

[Wh1teT1ger7]

So today was suppose to be my first consolidation run. However at 26 minutes my app told me I was at 4km so I carried on and finished in 34:08!!

Super proud of myself as I was only just covering 4km in 30 mins last week.

So my question now is... what should I do moving forward? Do I continue to run 5km every run (3x a week or so a couple of shorter runs twice and then a 5k at the end? I am not ready to increase my distance yet so my goal is to increase my speed.

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

Great stuff... many congratulations on that first 5k... faster than mine too as it happens!

There’s no right answer to that question. What would you prefer to do? Consolidation is recommended every few months of running (sometimes even a cut back on milage) so we suggest if for graduation as it’s a milestone... it’s sensible to do it on a milestone as it’s easy to think “10k, consolidation, HM, consolidation”. You have two milestones... whichever you consolidate on doesn’t matter. Personally, I think I’d choose the 5k. There would be a slight fracturing of the 10% rule, but the plan has done that a couple of times already.

Going further and going faster aren’t opposites... endurance enables speed to come. While I understand you don’t want to go to 10k yet, you’d find it easier to add pace to your 5k if you had one run a week that was longer, so maybe after consolidation push one out to 6k over a couple of weeks and see how you go?