I shuffle a lot especially when I’m trying to keep in zone 2. The last few weeks I’ve been running just at a conversational pace and it has been so much better.
Happy anniversary. I'm approaching my third (early next month). Those are some good times you've posted. I'm ahead of you on the HM front, having chipped it down from 2:48:26 in November 2019 to 1:58:34 in September (what can I say? The stars aligned that particular day), but your 5k and 10k times are pretty much what I was running two years on from graduating and in touch with my current PBs.
That’s really encouraging to hear. I only really run (fast for me) at Park run & sometimes the odd 10k. Longer distance I’ve just been trying to keep in Zone 2 but I’ve started running at a more steady pace as I want to get my HM to 2.30 & hopefully a Full Marathon one day.
If you're anything like I was, just knowing you can run HM distance will help you bite into that time. My first was 2:48:26, my second was 2:30:25 (and you can imagine how annoyed I was about those 25 seconds). I kept chipping away at it until I got to 2:04:56, and that's where it stayed until I ran my first official HM event (all my other HMs have been solo runs) and dipped under the 2 hour mark for the first (and so far only) time.
Marathon is a step more than I ever see myself reaching though. I'm happily in the HM camp but I can safely say I've never got to the end of one and thought, "You know what? I could just do that all over again..." I applaud anyone who does, but I don't think it's for me.
But, yeah, I'm with you, I save my speed for Parkrun and events. The rest of the time I'm just happily plodding along at the pace my legs choose for me.
I may be with you on the FM as I’ve just ditched my marathon training. Really need to get comfortable at HM distance first. Thanks for the inspiration 👍🏻
I think it's all about finding the distance you "enjoy" (using the term in the broadest possible sense). I've absolutely no doubt I could, if I could be bothered to train for it, have the physical ability to run a marathon; it's just that I have no real desire to do so.
After C25K and then reaching 10k (which I never believed I'd actually ever run) I was determined, thanks to this site, to get to 10 miles. Once I got there, I knew HM was possible and set myself the target of doing it. Then it was just a case of, Can I do it in 2hr30? Can I do it in 2hr15? , 2hr10?, 2hr5? Can I do it in >whispers to self< under 2hr?
It's just become the distance I measure and test myself over; long enough that it is a real achievement each time I do it, but not so long as I would probably want someone to put me out of my misery at the end.
I've done the distance 17 times now (16 as solo runs) and never felt the urge to substantially increase it. I may manage a metric 26.2km run some day, but 26.2 miles just seems like 4-5+ hours of my life I'd never get back.
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