Quote Originally Posted by Alex View Post
As of this evening, 30:18 if my new best 5k time.

The idea of getting it under 30 minutes seemed completely unreasonable when I first ran that route a couple of months ago, I think I was slogging it out around the 38 minute mark. Almost there though!

Remove the hill from the equation and that would comfortably shave a couple of minutes off straight away I reckon, at least. But it doesn't work that way unfortunately. I seemed to be stuck indefinitely between 31 and 32 minutes before I had that couple of weeks off with the bad leg, so I was well happy when I finished tonight and I clocked that. Fuck knows how people get down into the low 20's and stuff though. Very impressive.
Nice one. Keep going and you'll be surprised how much you can bring your time in. I was similar when I started (and am probably around that now) but after a few months of consistency it'll start shrinking.