Running 5 km Is Easy Now! February 15, 2007
Since doing that 10 km run last week, I’m now finding 5 km runs fairly comfortable.
In the past week I managed to complete a 5 km course I’ve struggled with in the past. The course goes up and over several coastal headlands, with a particularly hard hill leading up and around the lighthouse at the half-way point. I’ve never been able to run all the way up that hill; I have to walk for a minute or two and catch my breath.
This week, though, I ran right up and over the hill without a problem. I completed the 5 km in 29:45, which I was pretty happy with. I felt great afterwards, coming home and telling my wife what I’d been able to achieve.
Last night, I ran the same course again and did it in 26:45! I knocked a whole 3 minutes off my time! As I mentioned in Breaking Barriers, it seems that once you get it into your head that you can break a barrier, you really smash it. (Note that the 5 km run I mentioned in that post was mostly flat – I’m now running a very hilly course in close to the same time!)
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great time really shows you can smash a time !! 1 km 8 min is good for me!! great job
Thats great!!!! i do 5km in 21mins but im 17. keep it up and u will fly
Hey I’m a 17 year old australian, who like yourself, realised how unfit he was getting, I wasn’t putting on much weight, but my fitness levels were, well, lets just say “not the best”. Late nights spent on the computer, followed by whole days in the same position. Two weeks ago I decided I had to start, excercising, so i picked up jogging and a few other excercises, I already am seeing large improvments. Just wanted to tell you your site is inspiration to keep it going, hope you reach your goals and help me reach mine
even i have started to run arund 5km , but now I am feeling pain in my both knees , is it just because of I have started now or eveyone feels the same way ?