How far did you run at the end of Week 9?

[newgateway]

[TJFlute]

I honestly don't know because I didn't start measuring my route until a few weeks after I had finshed the podcasts. I was just so pleased that I could run for that amount of time...it was so much better than being on the couch!

[Grammadog1947 Graduate]

I was running 5k for all of week 9...not to "show off", but because I have a 5k race coming up in August. Needless to say, I wasn't doing it in 30 minutes...my pace right now is around 8k/hr...so I was running over 40 minutes each time.

[Pixel Graduate]

I'm not at week nine yet, but currently I'm doing around the 4.5kish (lowest I've done is 4.3 yesterday evening, but I did do a 4.6 this morning) mark at 25 minutes. I'm at the end of week six, so I suspect by week nine I'll just be scraping over the 5k mark if I can keep my current pace.

Hope this helps!

[GoogleMe Graduate]

I've just looked up my graduation run and it was 1.7 miles so 2.7k. That's on fairly challenging terrain.

[Gletap Graduate]

All of you are proper runners. I graduated a couple of weeks and just glad to be able to run and a friend actually measured that i can stil only do 3.5 km in 30 mins!! Any tips on improving speed wellcome.

[newgateway Graduate in reply to Gletap]

I'm not a proper runner and I ran 3.5KM too. Just wanted to see if I'm alone with my speed. Thanks for your reply.

[samjf25 Graduate]

don;t worry about not doing 5k, on week 9 I was running for 30 mins, but when I mapped my run online it was just short of 4k. Last Saturday a full 3 weeks after graduation I managed 5k, it took me 38 mins but I was so chuffed. You have to go at your own pace, the main thing is to enjoy it! I am loving my running even if I can't manage 5k every time!

[Ellie-may Graduate]

When I graduated I was running 4.3k in 30 minutes. Four weeks after graduation I am now running 5.1k in 35 minutes. I have given up, for the time being, trying to do 5k in 30 minutes, I am just concentrating on getting to 5k on each run and still 'enjoy' the running. Keep at it and good luck, you will get there.