Sky_Blue_Daz
Well-Known Member
Did the last run on week 2 of couch to 5k had one walk half way through
I’m doing my first in November and then another in February. When I run that distance now I find around the 18km mark is where I have to dig deep to finish - no idea how people do marathons…though I expect it’ll be the next challenge I set myself!Just got through my first half-marathon absolutely crawled home. Came in under 3 hours though which I'm happy with.
Yeah it was 10 miles where it got really tough. There were times where my legs felt like jelly. I shouldn't have attempted it for another 8 weeks really but got bored and wanted to push myself.I’m doing my first in November and then another in February. When I run that distance now I find around the 18km mark is where I have to dig deep to finish - no idea how people do marathons…though I expect it’ll be the next challenge I set myself!
Good on you for doing it. I do think a lot of it comes from your mindset before the run.Yeah it was 10 miles where it got really tough. There were times where my legs felt like jelly. I shouldn't have attempted it for another 8 weeks really but got bored and wanted to push myself.
My focus now is to just get the 5k time down carry on training and losing weight then I'll do the rescheduled draycote half in March and hopefully come in under 2 1/2 hours.
I wrote hard but they wernt all out....were probably averaging about 1 min 22 and for 5 minute mile need to be about 1 min 14. I can do a 400 in 74 seconds no worries but putting 4 of them together is the challenge!What sort of times were your 400's?
Your km rep isn't far off mine, and i'd be on the fringes of a sub 5min mile.
I've done a 4:45 1500mtr track race which is about 5:05 pace for a mile, and i'd be doing "hard" km reps in around 3:18-3:20.
So on some fag-packet calcs you might be currently about 10-15secs away from your target.
It doesn't sound a lot, but as you rightly say, its still a fair bit to chip off... somewhere between 2-4secs/lap.
Nice. Bedworth Parkrun is a bit lumpy from memory.Did Bedworth Parkrun this morning.
It was a bit of a spur of the moment thing, and off the back off two tough sessions this week i wasn't expecting great things.... so fairly content with 19:08 and 4th place.
Much cooler than last weekend at Warwick which helped a lot.
Thanks. I still hold out hope of coming 1st one week; have had a distant 2nd and a couple of 3rd places. Reckon the best chances are a cold wet winter parkrun when there's a big local race on the Sunday.Good going, well done on the pb.
Its amazing the variation in parkruns in a small area...... if i'd gone to Bedworth today i'd have won by over a minute.... at Cov i was 17th.
Was just pleased to run a satisfactory time straight off the back of a hard week..... (race last saturday, two midweek sessions, 12 miles yesterday).
Got a 10 mile road race in 7 weeks which is my main aim this side of xmas. Hoping to get somewhere close to 62mins.
Cov Half?Another half marathon distance under the belt this morning. Doing my first ever ‘proper’ half next month.
Nah, Verona.Cov Half?
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