I was a bit tired today but still managed 8×1 minute @’quite fast’. The Polar M600 managed to keep up quite nicely. This time I was comparing to a HRM-TRI as the STRYD+Garmin Strap I had been using seemed to be throwing out a few spikes early in previous runs. The little blue M600 peak anomaly…
Does what it says on the tin.
Does what it says on the tin.
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…
So you want a straightforward sub 20 minute 5k program?
A plan that will get you there quickly?
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…
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…
I spend a lot of time looking at my training stats. Probably too much. Probably more than I spend running. Whilst it is surely good to learn from the lessons of the recent past (your last session) it can’t be good to obsess over it can it? I mean when I do intervals I use…
