Hobby jogger looking for validation

"Been running 10 - 17 miles per week

PS I promise I'm not a troll lol"

Haha I only mentioned that because I've seen many seemingly earnest posts on here get the common "1/10" or "0/10" reply. Everything I've said is true :)

How long have you been running? You do cc in high school? You obviously improved. If you want sub 19 you will need to run a little more. If you want send me your email and we can talk.

Hey thanks for the reply friend. I never ran in high school. I took it up 3 months ago so I wouldn't lose fitness and I found I quite enjoy it. The improvement in times and speed was a nice side-discovery and subsequent goal/motivation I'm pursuing now :D

Run as often as possible, even if not for very long. I'd go after your goals shortest first, so try to get a couple track workouts in per week.

It's totally doable. I was about your age and had similar PRs when I first started running. Actually your PRs are slightly faster than mine were at the time.

After screwing around and taking lots of time off running, I finally got serious in 2013, and have been consistently running and doing tris since then. Coming off of 60 mi/wk training for a marathon last year, I was able to hit:

1:19:xx for 13.1 and 17:24 for 5k.

My current goal is to consistently run 70-75 MPW going into Philly marathon in November, at the same time hoping for those PRs to get a bit faster along the way.

Looking back, my one regret is not easing in to building up to high mileage sooner. If I had just focused on gradually getting myself to 80-100 miles/wk, I'd probably be crushing it right now.

Thanks for the replies guys, I'll definitely try to raise my mileage gradually over the next few months listening to what my body says and go from there.

Just also wondering how far can one get in reducing middle/long distance times with just easy runs and strides and the occasional tempo? Sorry for the newbie question.

You'll keep improving for a while as you're new at it. The most obvious step is to SLOWLY increase your mileage though.

Most important thing is probably not getting injured.