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Sub 19 Min 5k Thread

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larkim Dec 2024 8:28pm, 14 Dec 2024 26,305 posts	Quote Pin larkim Brilliant, well done
Charlesvdw Dec 2024 6:40am, 15 Dec 2024 508 posts	Quote Pin Charlesvdw Happy with the MetaSpeed Sky + ?
Mark Jingle All The Way, J 🇳🇿 Dec 2024 9:21am, 15 Dec 2024 7,871 posts	Quote Pin Mark Jingle All The Way, J 🇳🇿 Charlesvdw wrote:Happy with the MetaSpeed Sky + ? For racing only, yes. They're nice and quick BUT I did blister with them on the upper side of my right foot when I did the marathon earlier this year. They've got a kind of support there which rubbed on me quite badly. I use the MagicSpeeds for general speed work, intervals type training. Those took 3 or 4 good sessions to brea in but now I love them.
Mark J 🇳🇿 16 Jan 11:44pm, 16 Jan 2025 8,100 posts	Quote Pin Mark J 🇳🇿 Going to have a little pop at this again at ParkRun this coming weekend. More to see where I am at following four lower mileage maintenance weeks, rather than thinking I'm a shoe in for another PB. Not going to give myself any unnecessary pressure for sure. Also going to add this in to see what, if any influence it might have - fetcheveryone.com/blog-share.php?id=494193
Mark J 🇳🇿 19 Jan 8:05pm, 19 Jan 2025 8,126 posts	Quote Pin Mark J 🇳🇿 Got a 19:30 at the weekend. Happy with that as it felt controlled and comfortable. Obviously hard work, but comfortably so. Feeling that once I'm fully back up to speed with my next marathon block, I shoud be abe to pull the 30 secords or so back. A good start to the year I reckon.
larkim 17 Feb 9:43am, 17 Feb 2025 26,656 posts	Quote Pin larkim Surprised myself with a 19:21 at Widnes parkrun on Saturday. I've had an odd period of running for me recently. An intentional lack of "big race" focus tipped over into a bit of general lethargy, but then surprised myself over Christmas and into January that a simple protocol of "run at least 3 miles every day" tweaked my mojo / psychology quite nicely. But most weekends had XC races with the club throughout that period, though my heart wasn't really "in it" for most of them. This weekend there was no race in the calendar, and my family weren't able to make parkrun, so I thought I'd give myself a "sighter" to see where things were at. Widnes is in the top 10 UK fastest courses based on the last set of data, but I could turn up there with a degree of anonymity as clubmates etc were racing the next day. Jogging to the start I tried to get myself fired up (I've been singularly lacking in the ability to dig deep recently, partly through lack of any "consequence" to my performances) and settled on "let's see how close to 20 I can get" as a target. So was really surprised to be half way round feeling like sub 20 was relatively comfortable. There wasn't much left in the tank to squeeze extra seconds out at the end, others always have more of a sprint finish than I ever manage, but was a good reminder that it was only 9 months ago I was dipping under 19, so think I can at least make that a decent aim again. Clearly the combo of consistent running and the odd "tempo" (via XC races etc) has worked. Now I just need to keep it up!!
Mark J 🇳🇿 17 Feb 9:46am, 17 Feb 2025 8,403 posts	Quote Pin Mark J 🇳🇿 Excellent result @larkim.
Charlesvdw 17 Feb 8:33pm, 17 Feb 2025 555 posts	Quote Pin Charlesvdw Keep up the good work @larkim !
peanut 17 Feb 10:30pm, 17 Feb 2025 170 posts	Quote Pin peanut Well done Larkim. Great time!
larkim 17 Feb 11:50pm, 17 Feb 2025 26,668 posts	Quote Pin larkim Track session with the club tonight, 12x400m off 60s. Didn't want to overreach so intended 1:31-1:28 range. Ended up with the tidiest set of intervals I've done in a log while! 1) 0.26mi - 1:30(5:51/mi) 154/169bpm [900b/mi] 21cal 10.27/10.62mph 2) 0.26mi - 1:29(5:47/mi) 159/166bpm [920b/mi] 23cal 10.37/10.58mph 3) 0.25mi - 1:28(5:48/mi) 155/166bpm [898b/mi] 21cal 10.35/10.79mph 4) 0.26mi - 1:28(5:41/mi) 158/173bpm [898b/mi] 22cal 10.56/11.06mph 5) 0.25mi - 1:27(5:48/mi) 160/171bpm [928b/mi] 22cal 10.34/11.15mph 6) 0.26mi - 1:27(5:40/mi) 153/165bpm [866b/mi] 20cal 10.6/11.08mph 7) 0.25mi - 1:26(5:37/mi) 152/161bpm [854b/mi] 20cal 10.68/11.19mph 8) 0.26mi - 1:25(5:32/mi) 147/155bpm [814b/mi] 18cal 10.84/11.27mph 9) 0.26mi - 1:25(5:27/mi) 139/151bpm [758b/mi] 16cal 11/11.81mph 10) 0.26mi - 1:23(5:26/mi) 143/157bpm [776b/mi] 16cal 11.06/12.04mph 11) 0.27mi - 1:23(5:12/mi) 135/148bpm [703b/mi] 13cal 11.53/12.19mph 12) 0.26mi - 1:18(4:59/mi) 129/138bpm [643b/mi] 10cal 12.04/12.88mph