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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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1. aaron k - June 3, 2007

great time really shows you can smash a time !!
1 km 8 min is good for me!! great job