Rob's Running Blog

5k Time Trial – 27:41

Felt confident enought today to go at my 5k run as a bit of a time trial – set off quite hard, and did the first k in about 5:30, and felt it was suicidal at first, but managed to stay there or thereabouts throughout the run and ended up with a time of 27:41 – was hard in the latter stages but still somehow ran the last k as the fastest split apart from the first, which were as follows:

5:22
5:32
5:35
5:41
5:29

Still work to do – but feel the benefits of the last few weeks’ runs are not truly apparent yet, and am happy to keep knocking 70 seconds at a time off my 5K, which goes as a 2009 PB so far!!

Aim now to work towards sub 25 by the time I run my first 10k race, which should see me on course for at least a sub 55, but if I keep getting back to it at this rate, who knows – although these runs are hard at the moment, I do not feel I am over pushing myself, with some longer slow runs thrown in, I could get back into a nice groove quite quickly 🙂