You’ve probably been trawling the net or this site for 5k plans. There’s quite a few on this site; some good, some less so. Probably any plan and a certain amount of hard work will get you below 20 minutes but some will do it faster than others because they are better… The best plan…
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…
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…
You still can’t beat the 5x1k 2RI (Rest Interval) session as the all round most effective 5k training session for us mere mortals – I think. Here’s a good one tho. Not quite the same goal in mind necessarily. Let’s say your PB is 20 minutes ie 4:00 minutes per km. A nice round number.…
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…
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…
How to get a 5k PB.
What was aI playing at today? Yesterday I did some sprint training on the bike: 1 mile intervals with 1km recovery. So today I went for 1km RUNNING intervals with 2 minute recovery in between. I managed 4 of the kms at target race speed or above before I luckily arrived at the gate exit.…
Here are some suggestions for intervals you might do in your 5k training. They are not easy as you will be running fast. With the exception of the mile intervals you will be running at your TARGET 5k pace (realistic target please!) OR FASTER. the shorter the interval the faster you go. The 1k intervals are…
