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...but slow. I thought I could beat 45 minutes easily today as I did a 45 minute 5K on Tuesday (my first midweek 5K!). But my after icing my knees a lot this week, my knees were fine. But my calves were not happy.

I carried on to 7.3K as part of the plan to 10K by the end of April. Not fast today. But I did it and I never thought I would be doing 5Ks and more this time last year or even when I started nearly 6 months ago.

I will find out tomorrow on my walk if my legs like me still.

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Awch sounds like you need to lessen your distance..

Pain should not be ignored, or underestimated .. take your time.. there's no hurry to reach distance..build on strength x

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RennurGraduateβ€’ in reply tosparky66

Probably right. The ice packs were more preventative than anything else by the end of the week: sort of an ice bath for wimps. I'll take 2 days off and see if I'm ready. I may drop to two midweek 4ks this week.

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I started taking two rest days once I started hitting longer distances. The distance plans are more about the distance (strangely πŸ˜‚)...than speed. The shortest run can be speed or intervals or hill work... but the 5km or 30min middle Run should be slow, like the long run. πŸ₯°

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RennurGraduateβ€’ in reply toLottieMW

Did you take 2 days off after every run or just the long one? Or just 2 days off when you felt like it?

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LottieMWGraduateβ€’ in reply toRennur

Originally I was running on set days, so there was always a 2day stretch x1 per week. I then started to make sure to take the 2 days after the long run.

It didn’t matter for the timed plan, but because I’m so slow, I’m out there for a while, so it became more of an issue on the distance plan. I started to notice feeling tired, so dropped to 2 rest days every run from week 3.

Even though I’m slow...I’m getting faster...my pace today was 9:35/km...a faster pace than any of my runs further than 5km!

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I am just into W9 of C25K and now doing +30 minute up to 5k runs for the first time. Wow! I put it down to an age thing that being older equals longer to recover. So 'listening' to my body tells me that a x2 day interval (or longer) is better. I know after first 20 mins running whether I have had enough recovery time, and adjust accordingly. Avoiding injury is paramount

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