How To Run A Faster 5k - How I Got Fast Quickly In My 40's 

That's amazing, it sounds like you've got into a great routine and are seeing the results. The morning runs are really useful for me and yes I know what you mean about time for yourself! I know I need it!

Great, I'm really glad you found that useful.

Welcome to running. I too started in my 50s and is great fun!

Nice one Toby, good luck with the training.

Good luck! Manchester is awesome 🏆

This is so true

I kept fit over the years. Played tennis, gym and generally kept in good shape. Obviously better shape than I thought at the time.

No not continuous. At the moment I'm resting an injury so just doing some cross training. For London I just upped the mileage and kept consistent in the lead up to it.

So true 👍

Great point. Doing something that we would like to do in a way which makes us look forward to it the next day

Thanks! Lots of fast hill running. Nothing much further than 10k in those early days. I trained every other day, but did push myself quite hard when I did train. Its quite different from how I train now but it did work to gain fitness quickly.

@@patrickmartinrunning Thank you!!

Also I bet you work like me. If I had the time I would be much faster. But work comes first for me. And that's 60 plus hours per week. I am struggling to break 20 minutes. Pb currently 20.58

Could be lots of reasons not getting faster. I’m 62 and have been running low 18 minute parkruns for almost 5 years.

I don't at all. I go by feel, if it's an easy run I know what that feels like from practice. I try to keep things as simple as possible, for me it's more enjoyable that way.

I train by perceived effort, just like to keep things as simple as possible. I find that over time it gets easier to know what certain paces feel like. You'll know when you're not running easy and need to slow down. I would say that if you feel like you need to walk then do. You're still getting the benefit of the exercise.

Thanks! Gradually, I started adding a second run in on certain days a week to see how my body coped, then I added more double run days as I felt like I could take the extra strain. It seemed to work well, but it's important to be cautious and not overdo it.

If it was me I was probably substitute a hard session for a hill run. Hill runs are hard!

@@patrickmartinrunning cheers Patrick

I just go as fast or slow as I feel like I need to recover and be able to run up again.

Not until recently, I think it's something I was missing out on.

Not possible. Someone asked him a question what he was doing before running, he said tennis and long walks. In this comment section he added gym to the mix. But in another comment he said he had just started gym and needed lots of improvements in that. What I think is going on here is that 1) he is one in a billion, not millions but billions, injuries being what stops one from going high mileage straight away. Not even the elite can do this, we see no cases of top athletes ever been able to do this. I personally knew an Olympic champion in another discipline who could run similar times in marathons only after 20 years of running 30 km a day. And this guy was a freak of nature running fast at 50 years of age. Something is not right here. Again, if he is not lying, then genetic advantages are real. I never believed in genetics but ... hmm ... maybe it's true. Still if option 1 was the genetics, I probably opt for option 2) he is a pathological liar. Ask yourself, why at the start of many videos he says that people shouldn't just go out to train so many miles like him at first, just in case, that this is just what works for him. Really? Feeling worried that subscribers will start getting injured en mass?

I think I did a trial marathon distance run, once before my first marathon. A few months before, nowhere near marathon pace.

Ah thanks, I stand corrected, I didn't think about that when I took it from Strava! I thought that was a bit too good to be true!

Yes it's www.strava.com/athletes/1859864 I'm just resting an injury at the moment so it's not typical, but should be back soon.

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@@patrickmartinrunning thanks same here, great video. I've taken your advice and started to incorporate hills in most of my runs. I hope it will help to progress quicker 😊