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Sub 50 minute 10km Support thread

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icelandic trigirl Sep 2013 8:19pm, 2 Sep 2013 304 posts	Quote Pin icelandic trigirl BTW, Scribbler, just peeked and your 5k time is better than mine so I reckon you've got it in the bag for your next race.
The Scribbler Sep 2013 8:41pm, 2 Sep 2013 2,747 posts	Quote Pin The Scribbler Thanks, but it's been over a year since I ran my 5k PB and I'm struggling to get under 26 mins now. But that's because I've only been running short distances. Good to hear you got your sub 50 training for a longer race. I'm thinking that's what I have to do to get in shape for another attempt. Just not sure when that will be.
Ceratonia Sep 2013 2:18pm, 8 Sep 2013 180 posts	Quote Pin Ceratonia Just a few seconds over 50 minutes for the first 10k of my half-marathon this morning (the 11.1k that followed wasn't quite as fast though..) so I'm feeling pretty confident about going some way under 50 minutes in my next 10k in 4 weeks time. Few extra km per week for a few months and a couple less kg to carry round seems to add up to reasonable improvements.
Ceratonia Oct 2013 9:09am, 7 Oct 2013 208 posts	Quote Pin Ceratonia Firmly into the sub-50 for me, was a few seconds over 48 minutes at my 10k yesterday. More than 5 minutes faster than I managed in my previous two outings and three and a half minutes faster than previous PB.
icelandic trigirl Oct 2013 10:25am, 7 Oct 2013 406 posts	Quote Pin icelandic trigirl That's fantastic!!!!! Well done, Ceratonia!
RichHL Oct 2013 3:57pm, 7 Oct 2013 7,623 posts	Quote Pin RichHL Well done Ceratonia! Job done.
Dvorak Oct 2013 4:56pm, 7 Oct 2013 7,560 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak Great work Ceratonia Goes with my theory that training for and then running a really good HM in a great way to improve your 10K.
Ceratonia Oct 2013 5:30pm, 7 Oct 2013 209 posts	Quote Pin Ceratonia Think you're almost certainly right, Dvorak. Having said that, my 1:56 in the Cambridge HM earlier in the year was followed by two 10ks that were several minutes away from a PB. My not all that much faster 1:51 at Grunty Fen HM has been followed by a parkrun PB and a 10k PB in rapid succession. But, yes, in essence, just a steady diet of months of mostly easy running, avoiding injury and upping the mileage slowly has worked well for me.
Orangefleece Nov 2013 8:50am, 22 Nov 2013 179 posts	Quote Pin Orangefleece I. Can. Do. It.
Ceratonia Nov 2013 9:09am, 22 Nov 2013 248 posts	Quote Pin Ceratonia Looks like you pretty much already nailed it in your last two training runs, OrangeFleece? Just need a repeat performance in your next race?