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c210k in 3 weeks ... Doable?

  • 26-07-2015 2:50pm
    #1
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭


    So I'd like to run a relatively flat 10k in 3 weeks.
    I'm starting from a level of zero fitness but thought I'd go out for a run today and see what I could do.

    I ran 3.2km in 19:39

    Would it be at all possible or feasible to get to the level where I could finish this 10km in under 50 minutes do ye all think?

    Bit of background.

    I'm a sedentary 30 yo guy at about 80kg and 6' tall (sounds like a dating profile...). Starting to age starting to sag so probably time to get myself in shape mainly for my cardiovascular health than anything!

    in my family they've a tradition of running a 10km mid-august every year. I've only ever partaken in the celebrations after the finish line - this year I want to earn it!

    I know I'm leaving it late though but exercise and regime in general have never been my thing. Perhaps by posting here I'm forcing myself to try - I don't know.

    Tuesday I'll try for another 3km. Maybe 4km. Broadly I'm going to try to follow this plan starting at week 2.

    Wish me luck!


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  • #2
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    enda1 wrote: »
    So I'd like to run a relatively flat 10k in 3 weeks.
    I'm starting from a level of zero fitness but thought I'd go out for a run today and see what I could do.

    I ran 3.2km in 19:39

    Would it be at all possible or feasible to get to the level where I could finish this 10km in under 50 minutes do ye all think?

    Bit of background.

    I'm a sedentary 30 yo guy at about 80kg and 6' tall (sounds like a dating profile...). Starting to age starting to sag so probably time to get myself in shape mainly for my cardiovascular health than anything!

    in my family they've a tradition of running a 10km mid-august every year. I've only ever partaken in the celebrations after the finish line - this year I want to earn it!

    I know I'm leaving it late though but exercise and regime in general have never been my thing. Perhaps by posting here I'm forcing myself to try - I don't know.

    Tuesday I'll try for another 3km. Maybe 4km. Broadly I'm going to try to follow this plan starting at week 2.

    Wish me luck!

    You should not have a finish time in mind for your first 10k especially with no running experience behind you. No one can say where you might be running in the future even if you you had ran those 3k in 15 minute without a base, it would be inadvisable to run such a long distance without any kind of a base. You well be able to run the entire 10k, but it will at the very least require you to slow down your pace even then, I would say, it is too ambitious a goal so early in your training. It is wonderful that you want to join in a family tradition and running is a very inclusive sport. Don't get disheartened at this point. If this is something you want to do work, it wonderful and I wish you the best. Work on building a base fitness, put in the miles and the weeks and you could run a 10k before the year is out. Will all depend on overall fitness and motivation etc. Would any of your family be willing to train with you after the August 10k, to help you build a base, keep you motivated. I was had nearly put 3 months into the c25k program before, I thought about entering a race.


  • #3
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Note the following in the link you have posted

    Although this schedule (see below) is for beginners, don't start it if you've been inactive for at least the past three months. Ideally, to start this training program, you should be active a couple days a week and can run up to three miles. If you're not quite up to that, here are two beginner training schedules to try:


  • #4
    Hannibal Smith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,893 ✭✭✭Hannibal Smith


    Love it!! Wouldn't know about the time thing coz I'm only a learner myself, but love the getting in with the family race this year. Best of luck really hope you pull it off...not starting too late at all BTW...there are some right late starters knocking around ;)


  • #5
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    Greenmachine wrote: »
    Note the following in the link you have posted

    Although this schedule (see below) is for beginners, don't start it if you've been inactive for at least the past three months. Ideally, to start this training program, you should be active a couple days a week and can run up to three miles. If you're not quite up to that, here are two beginner training schedules to try:

    Ah I saw that all right.
    I've decided to take a rather headstrong and optimistic view of the whole thing for better or for worse and give it a shot.

    I can always not enter the race if I know I can't complete it at the time but thought I'd put in my best effort by following some sort of guideline as I'd nothing to base any training on.

    So today another 3.22 km this time in 18:04

    Thursday morning should be 4km and then 6.5km on Saturday. That will be a challenge I think!


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