Learning to slow down and not do too much too fast. It’s taken me a few injuries and set backs to learn that. I see a lot of new runners online still make the mistake and inevitably they post about injuries a year or so later after they started.
I did the UK variant of Couch to 5K (9 weeks, final goal is 30 minutes at any pace, not 5km) three years ago. I’d never run before in my life.
Instead of chasing pace after finishing that, I worked on increasing duration and distance. That was after realising that every time I’d forced myself to get faster I’d picked up some injury. Pace naturally increased as I got fitter.
I did the same thing earlier this year. Just be aware that after that program don’t up your mileage a fuck ton, your joints won’t be prepared. I went the route of trying to work on upping my 5k speed after the C25k plan and when I’m happy with that I’ll move towards 10k. My end goal years down the line is to run just 1 marathon in my life.
Learning to slow down and not do too much too fast. It’s taken me a few injuries and set backs to learn that. I see a lot of new runners online still make the mistake and inevitably they post about injuries a year or so later after they started.
I’m following the New to running (couch potato to 5k in 8 weeks) plan so hopefully I will not get injured
I did the UK variant of Couch to 5K (9 weeks, final goal is 30 minutes at any pace, not 5km) three years ago. I’d never run before in my life.
Instead of chasing pace after finishing that, I worked on increasing duration and distance. That was after realising that every time I’d forced myself to get faster I’d picked up some injury. Pace naturally increased as I got fitter.
I did the same thing earlier this year. Just be aware that after that program don’t up your mileage a fuck ton, your joints won’t be prepared. I went the route of trying to work on upping my 5k speed after the C25k plan and when I’m happy with that I’ll move towards 10k. My end goal years down the line is to run just 1 marathon in my life.