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Please may I have some suggestions for what to do next with my running?
If your aim is to run for an hour then take your current weekly mileage, whack it into a spreadsheet with a couple of calculated columns for weekly total and what 10% of that is, and you can easily calculate your weekly total target for the following week. Play around with what works for you and when you can realistically fit the runs in. I guess you'd keep all bar one of your runs the same length and add distance (time) to one or two other runs to build up slowly and spread the load so one run doesn't become twice as much work as any other. TBH it sounds like you're most of the way there already.
Running with a club is a good shout too as per @duncs suggestion. Running with other people is a good way to take your mind off how you are feeling and just run and chat and the miles pass by. You could see if there is a Run Together group near you if you aren't too keen on a "proper" running club.
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Dear Forum,
Please may I have some suggestions for what to do next with my running?
I shall set the scene. Five years ago, I was at my running "peak", with weekly mileage of 35mi or so. Since then I've had a really shit time with injury and laziness, most recently tearing my ACL and meniscus and having to gradually build myself from 30 second jogs up to where I am now which is running for 35 minutes four times per week, every week, with ease. I'm a big unit and I'm slow, so that's only about 13 or 14 miles per week depending on the wind (fuck the last week of weather!). I'm niggle free and feeling strong right now.
I want to aim towards a time goal, perhaps running for 60 minutes, four times per week. I'm in no rush to get there. I'm bored with my current routine.
Does anybody have any suggestions on a decent plan to follow? Perhaps a fun 10k training plan, given that I'm so slow? Suggestions would be very much appreciated.