I needed a feel-good session today and for some bizarre reason my plan has 1 minute intervals with 2 min recovery. That’s a lot of speed and a lot of recovery, perhaps too much. Anyway I went faster than ever sneaking in quite a few minutes at 3 min/km pace… awesome. I just have to…
You’ve probably been looking for a 5k training plan. There’s lots out there and a few on this site. You’re not an elite runner by a long chalk but you’d like to improve your 5k times at your local parkrun. Thing is, all those plans take up so much time and have you running many…
Wow! 4th Feb 2012 will have Mark Spitz and Ed Moses running the Bushy Park parkrun 5k ‘race’ – that is if they bring their trainers. They are both about 60ish now and so if you come along to the Bushy Park parkrun you might finally have a chance of beating them! Well I’m sure…
Wow! 4th Feb 2012 will have Mark Spitz and Ed Moses running the Bushy Park parkrun 5k ‘race’ – that is if they bring their trainers. They are both about 60ish now and so if you come along to the Bushy Park parkrun you might finally have a chance of beating them! Well I’m sure…
Today wasn’t one of my most glorious performances. I managed a sneaky PB in around October last year. I’ve been training reasonably well since then. Certainly enough to have improved. Yet today I knew that I had only managed a long run 6 days previously. And before that I’d been focusing on building up my…
You’ve run a parkrun and your legs hurt. Naturally you want sympathy. But the response you will get will range from “Didums” to “Oh my gosh are you OK? Shin splints can be really serious, you should stop running for a while and go and see the doctor.” I don’t want to trivialise a bit…
We all want to get that PB down as low as we can. I guess there comes a point though where nature takes over and that PB will never be possible. But then you can just look at your age graded score instead! So there’s always room for improvement by some means. Even some 60…
How long will it take me to do 5k in less than 20 minutes? 5k runners often have unrealistic expectations about how quickly they can improve. When you start out the improvement is dramatic. But the improvement slows quickly and the training effort required to improve increases. It’s really a statement of the fairly obvious…
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Yes. I would definately enter I represented GB in Age Group Duathlon and genuinely was worried that I may well have come last. As it turned out I wasn’t. There’s always someone somewhere that will be slower than you. You just have to hope they are in the same race!! But really who cares? Think…
So you want a straightforward sub 20 minute 5k program?
A plan that will get you there quickly?
Something to bear in mind. As you exercise you use the glycogen stored in your muscles (and liver to a lesser extent), with a bit of luck you might also burn some fat. After 30 minutes of doing whatever you do you will be WEAKER than when you started out. In itself exercise is bad…
That’s a great session. Looking at the whole effect of the exercise (and not just the exercise period itself) Intervals burn more fat than pretty much any other exercise. Though as you say it would be silly to develop a weight loss programme solely around running intervals. Potential PT #1 – 5k Fat Burner Run…
I’ve always known I sweat quite a bit and generally attribute that to trying hard. It’s natural right? I’ve also seen that sweat produced in a gym and thought, “Well it’s quite a bit, but if I bottled it all up it probably wouldn’t be that much.” I’ve sort of lived by that mantra for…
I’ve always known I sweat quite a bit and generally attribute that to trying hard. It’s natural right? I’ve also seen that sweat produced in a gym and thought, “Well it’s quite a bit, but if I bottled it all up it probably wouldn’t be that much.” I’ve sort of lived by that mantra for…
This post is for 5k runners who are relative beginners and can run 5k in less than 35-40 minutes and who can run for 60 continuous minutes if they wanted to. Typically you may have previously been focusing on getting miles under your belt but have not found that you are getting faster 5k times…
I think the 5:55 for 1 mile translates to somewhere between 19:54 and 20:10 for the 5k 🙂 Not the answer you wanted with your 5k PB already better than that! Was that mile after the other intervals? The body uses different systems for the 1 mile/1500m and the 5k so performance at one does…
If you ask a runner they will laugh at you. If you ask a good cyclist they will laugh at you. If you ask a great swimmer they will laugh at you. Many excellent single sport athletes will point out to you that triathlon and duathlon are for people who aren’t that good at running,…
If you run a 5k parkrun each week then you are not training ‘properly’ to improve. In the worst case you will probably not be getting enough benefit from your other restricted number of sessions to improve; so all you will be doing on Saturday is practicing at your current pace. You will get VERY…
|EVERYTHING| You Can Do To Run Your **5K FASTER** This Weekend – Ideal parkrun preparation.
