To be honest mate, I’m not that arsed. It’s just my fitness for the day, whole family goes and does it and it gets us out of the house. Such a big park too that you can socially distance pretty easily, bar the odd fucking muppet or family who fails to make room.That is excellent. Not that my advice is worth much but I did notice significant improvements when I started to add a few longer distances (even if much slower) and adding a hill run or speed run (fartleks) here and there.
Of course all depends on what your aiming for.
I’ve done Heaton Park parkrun 5k route, old route and new route, 14 days running. Seeing how many I can clock up on the trot.
All paths mate, and most of it is nice and wide.Never done that one, but it’s on the list.
Is it all concrete paths, or is some of it on grass or trail paths?
To be honest mate, I’m not that arsed. It’s just my fitness for the day, whole family goes and does it and it gets us out of the house. Such a big park too that you can socially distance pretty easily, bar the odd fucking muppet or family who fails to make room.
I'll thank you now. I took this advice from you about a year ago and it transformed my attitude towards, and enjoyment of running.Quite a few people on here talking about their 'times' but you've got to understand that, if you're going for a 'time' whenever you go out for a training run, your fitness will not improve much at all. The way to do it is to focus predominantly on aerobic zone running, i.e. a slow, conversational pace. If you want to get faster and run further, about 80% of your total weekly mileage should be in the aerobic zones where you don't get out of breath at all and at which pace you could easily hold a full conversation for the full duration.
If you're just getting into it, I would make that 100% of mileage actually. If you then want to do some specific speed work, this should be once a week (maybe twice with more experience) but even then, it shouldn't be flat-out chasing 'times' but at a controlled threshold pace or a specific interval session.
You'll thank me later.
Slow down mate. You shouldn't run hard every time. Amazing things happen in your body when you run but some of those things only happen when you run slowStarted the couch to 5k last week
safe to say my legs are handling it better than my lungs
any tips on breathing correctly while running?
Quite a few people on here talking about their 'times' but you've got to understand that, if you're going for a 'time' whenever you go out for a training run, your fitness will not improve much at all. The way to do it is to focus predominantly on aerobic zone running, i.e. a slow, conversational pace. If you want to get faster and run further, about 80% of your total weekly mileage should be in the aerobic zones where you don't get out of breath at all and at which pace you could easily hold a full conversation for the full duration.
If you're just getting into it, I would make that 100% of mileage actually. If you then want to do some specific speed work, this should be once a week (maybe twice with more experience) but even then, it shouldn't be flat-out chasing 'times' but at a controlled threshold pace or a specific interval session.
You'll thank me later.