Fair play to the people posting impressive times.
As put earlier in this thread, I'm a complete non-runner but got drunk and agreed to do the Brighton Half next year.
I play football a bit so hoped I'd have some sort of "base" fitness.I've decided to start straight at 5k and done two runs so far. I set off from my house and I was BEYOND cocky when at 3k I had all the energy in the world.
"This is an absolute breeze" I thought. Then it all went a bit SLOW and HURTY and I STAGGERED home. 33mins.
Now, NSC, this is where I need your help. Do I keep running 5km's and IMPROVE on those or is where I just try and go a LITTLE bit further each time, even though it's still not easy?
Thanks!
My first run was on January 23rd when I ran 3.8m, so 5km-and-a-bit. I only did that distance as I was determined that regardless of how slow I was, I would not run less than 5km! I almost certainly didn't have your level of base fitness.
Looking at my Strava log, I ran the same distance a further six times over the following two weeks before starting to up the distance a bit with a longer Sunday run. On April 5th, around 10 weeks after I started, I ran my first half-marathon distance and my pace for that (9:42/mile) was significantly quicker than my 3.8m run in January (10:40/mile).
I think most of us who are relatively new to this will testify how quickly your body can improve, both with regard to distance and speed, if you stick with it.