New Runners 2017

[welshjon81]

Anyone else started running as a new years resolution?

I've stared going on my lunch breaks Mon/Weds/Fri. Just finished my first 5K in about 20 years!

Took me around 32 mins (aiming for around the 25 min mark) so lots of work to do.

Loving it so far and actually looked forward to coming to work this morning to start my weekly routine.

Any tips from the more advanced runner on how to get down to the 25 min mark?

I'm 36 and around 13 stone.

[welshjon81]

Cheers both.

It's only my third run so far, so I suppose I should just concentrate on "sticking at it" before trying to make improvements yet?

I really do feel great afterwards though so I can see this becoming addictive. At my age though, with not much running experience, I am worried about injuring myself.

[welshjon81]

Legend83 said:

I'm running the London Marathon this year for the first time. Always been a team sport type and never really done much running.

Training started last week and up to 5k in 30 mins. Trying to hit a steady 9 minutes a mile pace.

A few minutes ahead of me then! Last week I comfortably ran under ten minutes/mile for two miles. I upped it this week to 3.1 miles and came in at around 10:20/mile.

I was out of breath but I could have probably gone in for another mile. Am aiming for 3 x 4 milers next week.