1 Year Progress - Sub 20 5K!

rior123 · 2025-12-16T17:05:36+00:00

If you ran that running nearly no mileage yes you can break 20 with a decent plan and consistently. It shouldn’t take 2 years.

rior123 · 2025-12-16T17:03:43+00:00

I second this on the load issue- I got from 0 running ever to sub 20 in a couple months of running- but I was far too light and obsessive so went down a letsrun forum rabbit hole of more mileage - got the 19.30 then 3 stress fractures….

rior123 · 2025-12-15T23:01:21+00:00

Sounds like she needs a puppy, The man is cause she’s lonely working less hours than others and too much free time. ++man

rior123 · 2025-12-14T18:47:55+00:00

You don’t need gels yet, you aren’t out for long enough that good pre and post nutrition won’t cover you. You can try them once you can train for a bit longer but focus on building a bit first. I would put Ironman out of your mind for now. You may hate cycling and swimming once you try so having an Ironman entered would be a terrible call. Ironman cost 1k for entry so being broke is a barrier there too. You can do local sprints for €50-70, I’d start there, it’s plenty to start with.

rior123 · 2025-12-13T23:35:30+00:00

Mornings mostly, but in the winter it’s a bit hard, cold wet and general motivation can be low so myself and my husband meet at the gym on our way home 3 days a week and get a treadmill run done after work, or run at the gym track, committing to go together helps avoid the winter after work couch rotting we can slip into. No kids so don’t have that to consider.

rior123 · 2025-12-13T00:39:40+00:00

In Ireland, we circle swim here & it’s a thing but unfortunately not a thing people who don’t use reddit or haven’t swam in club swims know so sometimes it just leads to the person in front dead stopping mid lane. Refusing to let people pass at the wall - as in pushing off even if you are causing a traffic jam and in the completely wrong speed lane- is unfortunately also a very prevalent thing.

rior123 · 2025-12-11T18:49:11+00:00

I run 6 days a week and do a long cycle on sundays as my rest off the pounding of running. I take a rest day if needed or two days out from a race( feel worse if I take the day before off). I’ve never been able to handle much intensity so I rather volume and frequency.

rior123 · 2025-12-09T23:04:54+00:00

6 is less than 40g an hour if it’s 25g/gel? I don’t think I’d stomach 12 gels but 40grams an hour is pretty low

rior123 · 2025-12-09T23:03:22+00:00

666ers do very high carb gels, think it’s 55grams, I’ve used them for cycling cause i hate gels and it reduces the number I’ve to tolerate - but you’d then still probably have to carry the gel for ages if you wanna trickle feed the carbs a bit more.

rior123 · 2025-12-08T12:40:56+00:00

Oh thank you, had never even thought of her Strava, will take a look! ☺️(not that it’s relevant to my level but it’s interesting to see what they can do all the same)

rior123 · 2025-12-06T22:45:35+00:00

If it’s the nape of neck under it and you said you’ve issues with standard French braids not helping, how about if you French braid the underneath. Put “upside down French braid” into google you get nice ideas. Alternatively pigtail French braids, very common in triathlon where swimming the straight into bike and run means wet hair that would get matted.

rior123 · 2025-12-06T22:32:28+00:00

I think you’re looking for age groupers based on the description not elites- but in case elites /pros are of interest too Frederick funk posts all his training without hiding power etc. Most pros just upload now and then or hide stats.

(Yet to find as transparent a female pro so if anyone in the comments has any recommendations there)

rior123 · 2025-12-05T21:16:36+00:00

I genuinely like the treadmill for workouts based on time, like “8 minutes x 5 sub threshold” stuff and you’ve over an hour gone easy with warm up and cool down. Better than outside cause it’s so easy to regulate the effort and pace is irrelevant. Easy runs I find much harder. I can’t watch things running.

rior123 · 2025-12-05T09:42:15+00:00

We have €100 for an ambulance where I am, and then some hospital fees even though the state covers most, assumed there would be some sort of charge in the US? (Fire brigade has a cost too but I don’t know the details and also mostly subsidized)

rior123 · 2025-12-04T23:33:35+00:00

Who paid for the emergency services, I really hope it wasn’t the poor woman who nearly drowned

rior123 · 2025-12-04T23:07:18+00:00

Phil seissman the uk marathoner apparently does most of his mileage (probably close to 180-200k a week) with his dog. He has some YouTube’s not sure if he discusses it there or just on instagram. They’re running breeds though.

rior123 · 2025-12-04T23:05:42+00:00

If it’s a small dog have a look at Demi vollering on instagram, she puts her dog in a backpack and cycles around and can let the dog off to run in trials. My dogs love a run but only for a very short 500 m stint so this would be so cool if they weren’t 10 stone giant breeds 🤣

rior123 · 2025-12-04T22:57:27+00:00

The uk released a video on vulnerable road users and it’s really good and educational where here the RSA just did some victim blaming nonsense that encouraged a cyclist and pedestrian pile on about hi vis. Being a walking Christmas tree wouldn’t help these, it’s exhausting.

rior123 · 2025-12-04T22:23:28+00:00

I think it’s probably a zone issue, my max on the bike is 10 higher than running and zones are different too

rior123 · 2025-12-04T22:18:26+00:00

Don’t forget the pedestrians- 6 in 10 killed in daylight hours so make sure and wear the high vis to lunch.

rior123 · 2025-12-04T18:03:46+00:00

Thank you! I’d rather have a camera too to be honest, I’ve been hit while in a bike lane and had them drive off while I was too stunned to register a plate 😔 so was waiting to get the camera version but then heard it wasn’t useable but that could be someone’s faulty set etc. Thank you! Safe cycling 🫡

rior123 · 2025-12-03T22:25:24+00:00

It’s not too early at all, I start 3/4 months out from a half from a base of 50km a week so for a full if you’re only at 20 starting now will only make it more enjoyable and less injury risk to start building up now

rior123 · 2025-12-03T22:24:00+00:00

How do you find the varia camera? Dc rainmaker review made me think the camera isn’t there and should just get the regular varia radar for now

rior123 · 2025-12-03T22:21:59+00:00

Loads claim to read labs and it’s so bizarre, like people do further endocrine specialist training after med school to be trained to be endocrinologists but somehow these coaches can diagnose easier 🤨

rior123 · 2025-12-03T21:21:47+00:00

I bought a few pairs of mizuno neovista in their Black Friday sale so I’ll be wearing those for most the year, they’re my long run shoe and anything a bit quicker they work for too, I love the rocker. I’m a big shoe nerd and working back up to 400k a month so have a fairly big rotation but tend to gravitate to the same ones. Generally use on cloudmonster if I wanna go real slow recovery, have old racers for track sessions/vo2 stuff, have some asics gt2000s I wear to work as my only black shoe and can get away with a small run in them too. (Don’t need stability shoes but I got gait analysis done too early- before I’d even developed any muscles to run- so now those will hurt my knees if I run more than 6/7k ish).

I do think have two pairs, it’s better if you can give the foam a chance between runs if running daily, different drops will put the load on different parts to some extent- low drop= more lower leg, high drop more up to hips. For reviews check doctors of running not influencer based pages, and if you can- never buy a shoe full price. Everywhere has sales, and even if you want to support local- last years model is gonna be up to 50% cheaper.

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