Breaking 5K

This week has seen some really lovely sunny mornings to run in, followed by rain later in the day. This is of course perfect for me, and getting out of bed when it's light is so much easier.

Things continue to progress slowly but surely and the graph from RunningAhead shows my mileage drifting upwards to the point where I am actually running 5K now, with 2 walking breaks.

I've managed to stay at 10:1 run:walk all through this week without anything breaking. I have certainly found there to be an increase in complaint from my ankle tendon, but as things stand on Friday afternoon, it seems to have started getting used to the extra effort and there is less grumbling down there than at the beginning of the week.

I now plan to keep this going through next week and then add an extra minute so I'm running 11:11:8, then continue to keep my total running time at 30 minutes whilst I continue increasing towards 15 minutes. Hopefully, this very gradual approach will prevent further injury.

I think I can now say I've partially met one of my goals here. I am running for 30 minutes, I just have to work on the "stopping" part now.

This weekend sees me at a family event in Somerset which I'm looking forward to. Unfortunately, it clashed with a real 5K event I had hoped to run, the "Hearts First Jog - Wyre Forest 5k" on Sunday. This looked like a really good one to start as it's in a place I love to go walking anyway, it's only a half hour ride to get there and it's in aid of the British Heart Foundation. However, family first, so I'll continue looking for another opportunity as I carry on training. It would be great to post my first PR in something before I get a year into this blog!

Wed 3.11 miles, 30 minutes, 10:1 run:walk 9:39 pace. 2C
Fri 3.11 miles, 30 minutes, 10:1 run:walk 9:39 pace. 3C

Mr Stumble.