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  • Earlier this week, I started on a plan to hit 19:59 for a 5k, some time in early February 2016

    My current 5k is 22 minutes, but I reckon that I should be knocking out a 21:30 if I managed to do a park run without getting a massive stitch

    I don't think my usual 3 days a week (1 speed, 1 tempo, 1 long) will cut it any more - I don't seem to have the speed endurance that I need to finish sub-20, so I'm upping the number of runs I'm doing and getting more quality miles in my legs

    At the moment, I'm aiming at 5 or 6 runs per week

    • 1 Intervals or repeats (sub-5k pace and 5k pace)
    • 1 or 2 threshold or tempo (5k & 10k pace)
    • 1 long (HM pace)
    • 1 or 2 recovery (mara pace & slower) runs.

    My shoes are green. I might buys some red ones.

  • red = 30s.

    Have you run your best times at an even pace? I can't do this but I think learning will give me some free seconds. I also don't know how to learn to do this. I often feel optimistic when I set off so smash it then cling on in the last KMs while people pass me. Basically I'm the guy who dosnt really know what he is doing.

  • Have you run your best times at an even pace?

    My splits are always pretty even, unless I blow up - smashing out intervals at specific paces gives you a great feel for how fast you are going, and I have a garmin to remind me every km.

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