Originally Posted by
BroncoWave
Update on my progress since this post. The 5k mentioned in this post that in ran in 31:50 was run 10 days ago. I ran my first one today since then. 3 days after that 5k, I ran a mile just to see how fast I could do it. My time there was 8:41. 3 days later, I attempted to run another 5k, but I was having some serious breathing issues right at the beginning of the run (likely allergies/sinuses, I'm blocked up by those half the time), so I could only make it a mile, and that took over 11 minutes. After that I took 4 days off to fully recover from all of that. This morning I ran another 5k, and I was very pleased with it. Shaved 1:01 off of my time to run it in 30:49. My mile pace improved from 10:17 to 9:57.
My mile splits got better as well.
Run 1:
Mile 1 - 9:33
Mile 2 - 10:02
Mile 3 - 11:07
Mile 3.1 - 11:18
Run 2:
Mile 1 - 9:38 (actually slower than last time)
Mile 2 - 9:50
Mile 3 - 10:15
Mile 3.1 - 11:06
So my pace on the first two miles was pretty similar in both runs, but Mile 3 was where I really improved. That whole minute I cut off my time pretty much all came in that last mile. It's good to see that my stamina is increasing a bit, especially after only having run a total of 2 miles in the 10 days prior.
I'll probably do another speed run next then try to get another 5k in some time in the next week.