Where to Next?

Vain

Ok guys have completed couch to 5k, at the moment im using the 5k app distance wise to try and improve my time for the 5k. Im doing the 5k in 28ish mins, im happy enough with that at the moment but im working on getting it down.

Anyway im 23 5ft 8" male about 80kg and before I started couch to 5k I had put on a bit of weight. I have now started training for a new job which requires a good bit of fitness.

where do I go from here im impressed I went from not been able to run a min or 2 before be outa breath to running a 5k. I do a 5 min warm up walk before my run and stretch so you could say the work out is taking 45-50mins.

I want to keep improving my fitness and was thinking of starting the couch to 10k but again thats going to take longer than a hour and im wreaked once im home from training for work. Any ways I can keep improving my fitness on my current level with out having to commit more time to it!

Thanks!!

Kurt Godel

Vain wrote: »

Ok guys have completed couch to 5k, at the moment im using the 5k app distance wise to try and improve my time for the 5k. Im doing the 5k in 28ish mins, im happy enough with that at the moment but im working on getting it down.

Anyway im 23 5ft 8" male about 80kg and before I started couch to 5k I had put on a bit of weight. I have now started training for a new job which requires a good bit of fitness.

where do I go from here im impressed I went from not been able to run a min or 2 before be outa breath to running a 5k. I do a 5 min warm up walk before my run and stretch so you could say the work out is taking 45-50mins.

I want to keep improving my fitness and was thinking of starting the couch to 10k but again thats going to take longer than a hour and im wreaked once im home from training for work. Any ways I can keep improving my fitness on my current level with out having to commit more time to it!

Thanks!!

Running a 5k isn't that impressive, if you ask me (which you have by posting on this forum), so the first thing to do is stop being impressed by that progress, and move on. It's good that you want to run faster- practical steps you could do to get faster in a limited time include:
1. Drop the 5min warm-up/stretches. They're not any use for the pace you are jogging.
2. Train at a faster speed, in the same time, and your fitness will improve.
3. Have a read of this sadly-locked thread "Are you new to running?" for good advice on common newbie questions.

geld

Well done so far. In a nutshell the best thing you could do is to join an athletic club. Taking part in the training provided will reap huge benefits.

Mr Slow

I think you should totally congratulate yourself for getting to 5k from zero.

Now move onto 10k, your 5k time will come down in the process and as for feeling too wrecked from work to train, just keep getting out there, as your fitness improves you'll find you're not as wrecked from work and the workouts themselves will become easier.

Pisco Sour

Kurt Godel wrote: »

3. Have a read of this sadly-locked thread "Are you new to running?" for good advice on common newbie questions.

Super thread. Could do with a small tidy up but don't see why it was locked.