Excellent improvement, well done! Funny your starting time of 25 min was my PB when I used to jog 20 years ago 😆
And stretching for the win! I play in a bball conp twice per week at age 42 and stretching is a big part of my pre and post game routine. Rarely injured ...touch wood!
Bloody good effort Ben! Back in the day when I treated running as a serious hobby the best advice and results I got for improving my times was doing speed/sprint work. Doesn't have to be much. Just do 10*100m sprints with a walk/slow jog back to the start after each effort. Helped me do a 58 min City to Surf and sub 40 10km.
I don't know the physiological details but it is recommended in a ton of articles and a friend who was a pro triathlete back in the day told me about it as well. Amongst other things it's meant to boost your vo2 max and I huess it develops different muscle fibres like the fast twitch. Give it a try. It's only 2km of distance and about 10 mins of time!
Excellent improvement, well done! Funny your starting time of 25 min was my PB when I used to jog 20 years ago 😆
And stretching for the win! I play in a bball conp twice per week at age 42 and stretching is a big part of my pre and post game routine. Rarely injured ...touch wood!
Touch wood indeed!
Bloody good effort Ben! Back in the day when I treated running as a serious hobby the best advice and results I got for improving my times was doing speed/sprint work. Doesn't have to be much. Just do 10*100m sprints with a walk/slow jog back to the start after each effort. Helped me do a 58 min City to Surf and sub 40 10km.
Nice! Why does speed/sprint work help? Just a nice change up compared to steady runs?
I don't know the physiological details but it is recommended in a ton of articles and a friend who was a pro triathlete back in the day told me about it as well. Amongst other things it's meant to boost your vo2 max and I huess it develops different muscle fibres like the fast twitch. Give it a try. It's only 2km of distance and about 10 mins of time!
This is actually incredible, I'm hoping to see similar progression with my long stuff, through a similar method.
Thanks mate. You keep going with your eating and sleeping, you'll be amazed at how fast and far you go.