I’ve been doing the Couch to 5K program for a while now, and I’m currently at the last week of it. I can now run for 30 minutes straight, but way less than 5K in that time. The issue is that if I were to run 5K, I would only be able to run it a lot slower than 40, let alone 30 minutes, at my current pace… which, according to a quick Google search, is a much worse time than the average novice runner at my age and sex.

So what now? I’m kind of clueless about what to do after this program, because now that I can run for 30 minutes, I want to actually run 5K in those 30 minutes, like the program implies.

Thank you so much for the responses in advance.

  • Lord_Logjam@lemmy.world
    8·
    11 months ago

    You will get faster. You can run 5k and you can run for 30 minutes nonstop. Eventually those two things will happen at the same time. Don’t let data get you down, just enjoy the run.

    • sirnak@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      And if you don’t enjoy the run itself, enjoy the fact that you forced yourself to do something that maybe isn’t fun while you do it, but you know it’s still worth it.