Comments on: Smoking Your 5k Race: How To Do It http://woldfitness.com/2010/05/smoking-your-5k-race-how-to-do-it-carson/ Luke's Fit Body Formula Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:28:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: laurie http://woldfitness.com/2010/05/smoking-your-5k-race-how-to-do-it-carson/comment-page-1/#comment-11812 laurie Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:52:26 +0000 http://woldfitness.com/?p=1260#comment-11812 I've been trying to run my three mile route faster and faster for the past few months to bring my 5k down. I can run it comfortably in the mid 23 minutes. However, I walk/ jog the 2 miles back and try to do one fast mile and end up only doing it in about 7:14-7:30 which is about what I am averaging in the whole 3 miles. So you are saying a better method to bring the 5k down is to do 3 one-mile intervals? Will this actually pay off in a 5k? What if I just get used to running one mile distances? I would rather try and get my mile down to the 6:40s. Really I just want to get my 5k down to a 22 minute 5k. I'm about to turn 40 and have a race coming up two days before my fortieth birthday and really don't want to run it in 24 minutes. I’ve been trying to run my three mile route faster and faster for the past few months to bring my 5k down. I can run it comfortably in the mid 23 minutes. However, I walk/ jog the 2 miles back and try to do one fast mile and end up only doing it in about 7:14-7:30 which is about what I am averaging in the whole 3 miles. So you are saying a better method to bring the 5k down is to do 3 one-mile intervals? Will this actually pay off in a 5k? What if I just get used to running one mile distances? I would rather try and get my mile down to the 6:40s.

Really I just want to get my 5k down to a 22 minute 5k. I’m about to turn 40 and have a race coming up two days before my fortieth birthday and really don’t want to run it in 24 minutes.

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