04-01-2009, 05:09 PM
Hi beatule1 and welcome
sub 45 minutes to sub 35 minutes is indeed a massive hike and we would consider it rather wise to set your long-term goal on 35 minutes and your short term on achieving sub 40 mins, this would be a far better realistic approach to achieving targets to start with.
As for running less, I think you would have to be a total natural athlete who can run sub 20 minutes for 5km without training to consider running less to achieve goals. And to achieve sub 35 mins you have to be able to run 17 mins for 5k off hardly any running.
There is no substitute for running and no amount of cross training, weights or other will make running any easier.
How would you like to approach things from here onwards?
TheEd
sub 45 minutes to sub 35 minutes is indeed a massive hike and we would consider it rather wise to set your long-term goal on 35 minutes and your short term on achieving sub 40 mins, this would be a far better realistic approach to achieving targets to start with.
As for running less, I think you would have to be a total natural athlete who can run sub 20 minutes for 5km without training to consider running less to achieve goals. And to achieve sub 35 mins you have to be able to run 17 mins for 5k off hardly any running.
There is no substitute for running and no amount of cross training, weights or other will make running any easier.
How would you like to approach things from here onwards?
TheEd