How long did it take you to improve your 5km time from 23 minutes to under 20 minutes, and what efforts did you make?

It took 16 days. Jogged little bit each day.

What was your 1000m or 800m time before training for 5km?

Freshman year of highschool, started at 21:30 and broke 20:00 later in the season.

The problem with this question is that a lot of people here started running when they were young-- this really messes with your progression.

Started xc as a senior in HS. Was ~24 min first race. Got down to low 19’s about 6 weeks later

6 months 24 mins in january and then 19 something in july. of course I was 13 and just turned 14 but thats prolly why.

Was running 21:45 at start of the year and got down to 17:45 after a few months. Consistent training, nothing special, and also lost 30lbs.

It’s now 23min? You said 25min on your other thread.

was an out of shape 14y/o freshman in HS, went from 24 mins the first race to 20 mins the last. could barely jog 2 miles the first day of practice, so mostly newbie gains and experience

These threads are different for different purposes, but my stories are the same.

My improvements in the 5km personal best records are as follows:

1) At the age of 33, I first finished the 5km distance in 36'25".

2) At the age of 34, I improved to 24'56".

3) A few years later, at the age of 40, I further improved to 24'43" and 23'08".

4) Then, at the age of 41, on February 28th this year, I achieved a new personal best of 22'10".

And my running performance is still improving, and I feel that I will soon be able to break the 20-minute barrier.

So now your story has really changed from your original post on the other thread.

But the purpose of your two self-aggrandizing threads is now clear; you want to brag that you are moving up from a back-of-the-packer to become a mid-packer.

congratulations

And it ‘only’ took you well over seven years to accomplish that feat.

cheers

My best suggestion if you can is join a running club and try to find a few sub 20min runners you can team up with for 2-3 sessions per week. Always much better if you can train with others who are running the kinds of times you are aiming for if you can.

You are a troll.
there is no way you are running 150km + per week and are that slow…

You missed his latest post, where he informs us that contrary to being stuck at 23 min (as he said earlier), he now thinks 20min will soon be achieved.

My first suspicion with his ridiculous first post on the other thread.

I stopped running in my early twenties for 5 years, and got really out of shape (put on 30kgs). My first race back, after losing 10 of those kgs was a 22:04 5k. (This while 85kgs at 5'10")

It took me about another 8 weeks (and another -5 kgs) to get back under 20 minutes.

I now weigh 65kgs and run low-16s.

If you're running that much, you should be much faster than that.

What kind of training are you doing? Are you working on vo2, lactate threshold, etc?Perhaps it's an issue with form?

Look again dipsh*ts.

He says his "monthly" volume is 150-220km.

Maybe you are the one that needs to “look again”, eh?

In his original post to this thread he says, “For instance, my best 1000m time is 3:50, but I am stuck at 23 minutes for 5km.”

Compare that statement with what he said in his most recent posts (‘hitting 22min, and soon to hit 20min’).

also on the other thread he doesn't say 25 minutes, he says under 25 minutes... i.e. 23 minutes