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Did this and got a 21:07. I think it may take me a year to see if I can 6 min/mile one. I'd like to run a sub 20 this year. That should be achievable as I'm not in great condition. I also only really want to run 2-3 time a week.
What I have worked out is that trying to structure my training really turns me off. I may to too lazy to train in the best way. Think I might just keep running and turn up to parkruns every now and again. When I get to the point where I'm not getting any faster I'll think about my training then.
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trying to structure my training really turns me off
You can have a fairly unstructured-but-still-structured training off 3 runs a week - 1 long steady run, 1 short tempo / race pace run, and 1 speed work run.
The speed work doesn't need to be militarily run intervals with times laps and rest periods - you can just fartlek it - Go for an easy run, but put in some hard repeats where you run til your lungs turn inside out, recover a bit, then do it again.
NotThamesWater
Run a park run. Smash it. That's your race pace.
Plug your numbers into an online training pace calculator (Mcmillan, vdot etc..) for training paces.
My tempo pace is the race pace that I would run double the distance I'm currently running - e..g 10k race pace for 5k, 20k race pace for a 10k etc...