Re:Get Running with Couch to 5K
by gghhzzgghhzz on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:39PM
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> Within a few weeks, it's something that should be achievable in sub-20/25 minutes.
I wish it was that easy.
I trained hard for a year and barely made it under 24.
I guess it depends on age and if you are carrying around a bit of extra weight.
5K is a wonderful distance though. You can walk it in an hour, walk / jog it in 40, jog it in 30 .. then a whole world of gradual improvements and mind games open up to get you from there to 20 mins.
I've been running for years and my parkrun PB is just over 25 minutes, but I am also very overweight. I think, after a few weeks of Couch to 5K, getting anything under 35 minutes would be a big achievement.
In the UK, there's a volunteer led organisation called parkrun which hosts 5km runs/races in over 1000 parks around the country every Saturday. It's quite popular. My local race consistently get 300+ entrants each week. Worth checking out: https://www.parkrun.org.uk/
5km, 10km, half marathon and marathon are the main running distances. Less than 5km is generally stuff run on athletics tracks, which falls under athletics.