Anyone know of anyone who races, or has raced, 5-10K off of a half-hours' training per day? I have time constraints and am curious how people trained in this fashion.
Anyone know of anyone who races, or has raced, 5-10K off of a half-hours' training per day? I have time constraints and am curious how people trained in this fashion.
Either your sarcasm is really dry, or this is a really stupid, sophomoric response. Lots of people (read doctors or lawyers, among others) have rigid time constraints. You can still achieve modest goals on 30 minutes a day, but a good portion of your training will need to be really fast. I managed a 15:55 5k in cross-country in high school after training about that much through the summer and early fall. However, most of my runs were fast, unless I was really tired. Not a lot of disciplined, scheduled workouts, just continuous fast running with an occasional race on the weekend. It would be good if you could run longer on the weekends obviously, or at least one longish run on the weekend up to 1 1/2 hours. You won't reach your potential obviouly, but if this is a serious inquiry, you can still get lots of quality in.
I agree with the last post. I just graduated from college a year ago and had a lot of life changes happen within that time frame. Child, New Job, Death, etc.... I have not been blessed with the most time, although I have averaged 31 miles per week over the last 14 weeks and have not see pr's but have seen good times. I ran a 16:05 5k, 9:45 2m, 4:33 true mile, off of simply going out and running everyday with no structured work outs. Not everyone has the time to train 70+ miles a week, and lift, etc... Just because you do not have that kind of time does not mean that you cannot be successful. Keep faith and have fun doing what you are doing.
I know a guy who spend years running consistend mid-15 5ks off such training...of course, that was after years of high mileage and in what he considered running "retirement".
I run some decent times with little training myself. I run pretty much all of my mile during my lunch hour. I start running at 12:00 finish at 12:30 then eat. Back to work at 1:00. It can be done. I've been running consistent (16:30-40's) and (34:30-35) with this littel training. I usually get in a good 25-30 miles per week. HAHAHAHAHH funny I know but kids, job, wife and just life can kill your time. Have fun.
Thank you.
For the 5k it is no problem but I can't see anyone running a decent 10k without a good long run in there somehwere (45 to 60 min).
luv2run wrote:
Minor Quandry wrote:Anyone know of anyone who races, or has raced, 5-10K off of a half-hours' training per day? I have time constraints and am curious how people trained in this fashion.
Hundreds of people do this every weekend. Do you think everyone at the local 5K runs 100 mpw?
Wait, I bet you are wanting to run really fast on 30 min/day. Generally I say you can forget it and not even bother racing until you can get your priorities straight.
Moron
What's your longest weekly run, or are they all 30 minutes?
A good training week could look something like this
m 30 mins easy
t. 5min warmup 20 min tempo 5min cd
w. 30mins recovery
t. 5min warmup 20 min fartleck 1 on 1 off 5min cd
f. 30mins easy
s. 30 min progression run
s. 30 mins easy or 60-70min long run if you can
Bannister broke 4 off of 30 min a day - it's not 5k but I'm sure he could've run a pretty fast one.
Makes lydiard look like a Moron.
John Walker ran 20-30mins/day in for a full year in '77 ('78?) because of injury and ran a 3:51 mile.
Training is not a Sissyphean task of pushing a boulder uphill i.e. if you stop or slow down, it doesn't all evaporate....
Last year i ran 15.12 -> 16.30 on the roads doing mainly 4-5 miles per week. The longest run was usually 45mins on trails ~7 miles I guess. I think, as others have said, that if you're going to go this route consistency is the main thing. I didn't do a lot of planned workouts, some 1 minute repeats and just running how i felt. If you feel good, hammer, if not cruise.
edited...my above reply should have read 4-5 miles per day, not per week. Now that would be good!
There was a runner called Peter Barrett who used to run for Shaftesbury Barnett in The Uk in the 80's. I read on this site he only ran half an hour a day at good tempo. Will find the page for this and put on the site.
Also Jo Pavey only run up to half an hour in a go when coming back to injury and preparing for Sydney 2000 5k. Having said that she was running twice a day quote alot (fast).
Minor Quandry wrote:
Anyone know of anyone who races, or has raced, 5-10K off of a half-hours' training per day? I have time constraints and am curious how people trained in this fashion.
why not? the 10k only takes about half an hour, the 5k about half as long
I used to train with a guy who used a three day cycle of;
Day 1: 30min flat out, straigth from the door no warm up or down
Day 2: 30min Fartlek efforts of 30sec to 1min
Day 3: either a rest day or a 1hr run
was a busy chap and did running from fun mainly, but off this he did manage a 29min flat 10k and a sub 14min 5k...
hated him he was so talented!
I once knew a guy who had almost no time to train because of a family situation. So each night he'd run 4 miles as hard as he could, usually in about 20 minutes. He was a 4:07-4:08 miler. He did manage a long weekend run. The highlight of this sort of training came in the national 30km championships one year when Bill Rodgers ran 1:29 and this guy hung with him for 14 miles, finishing in 1:34.
There was an interesting thread here a while back that sort of addresses this question. Here's the link:
Thank you all very much. This speaks to my sense optimism.