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Park runs a weekly time 5 K. events that take place every Saturday morning at 9:00 parkrun first began in 2000 full and bushy park London, and now spans to 1709 parklands worldwide with the total number of registered popcorn is quickly approaching 200000, today I shared my tips on how to run a foster parkrun so my first tip is to improve your training regime now there’s no secret that to improve your 5 K. time just like any other race distance, you need to see an improvement in your training now there are none the ways in which you can do this the first is to increase the volume of running you do per week, so I can do this by running more miles maybe increasing the frequency of your runs so for example if you’re currently running twice a week try adding a third run into a training plan, another way you can improve your training regime is with intensity a really good way to do this when you’re a beginner runner is to and in some simple, but effective speed sessions into a training I’d recommend trying one of these training sessions per week, if you’re somebody who’s not got currently any interval type training and that plans the first session is 10 by 400 meters with one minute standing recoveries now these 400 meter reps you want to be running just faster than your 5 K. pace and then for that one minute 30 you stand and try to recover and get ready to do that again another great session to try is 4 by chlamydia, now these Columbus wraps trying to hit your target 5 K. pace for these and the rest for this workout is 2 minutes as you get faster and fitter I suggest increasing the number of reps and reducing that recovery time, but sticking it to these work out so for example I work out the I now do as a 15 minute 5 K. run out is 20 by 400 meters a slightly faster than my 5 K. pace so it just increase the number of wraps, and I now to 45 seconds recovery server change the amount of time I get to recover.
So when the sessions adult limit to your current fitness your current ability and as time goes on you can gradually adapt than to make them a little bit more challenging another way you can improve your training regime is to obtain a weekly structure that you can consistently hit each week, so for me when I started I used to have Tuesdays off what I knew that not Tuesday was gonna be my speed session every week because I could’ve handled a slightly higher volume and intensity of training on that day, so if you it may be on Saturdays you’ve got a window that you can then do your long run so just putting in place a weekly structure you can constantly go back to and maintain over weeks of training really, really helps when building and improving your training which hopefully will lead to an improvement in your 5 K. time and the final few points to make about improving your training regime is to try and follow the 8020 rule and this basically means 80 percent of your training should be easy running now these runs when you go out conversational pace you know putting too much strain on your body, and they should form 80 percent of your training the rest 20 percent on those speed sessions the slightly higher intensity workouts and these are sort of like the cherry on top of your training they build that speed and they get you ready for race day now with improving our training, I will just say any improvements you make need to be gradual so for me when I looked at increasing live only in isolate the 10 percent rule each week so for example if around 30 kilometers in week 1 in week 2 of my training block I increase that to 33 calamitous and so on, I’m not basically was a good amount to increase each week I love my body to adapt to the new training stimulus and it basically continue progressing too much training without any risk of injury so 10 number 2 is don’t try and run a foster park on every single week, now I was a sucker for this when I started my popcorn Jenny if you like and I think around maybe 6 consecutive PBA.
He’s we caught them we caught the week which at the time was incredible and then this actually isn’t a great way to train to run a fost a 5 K. race after cannot see because a lot of fatigue on the body which can be detrimental to your training, so for example, if you’re trying to bash out a 5 K. E. B. every Saturday morning at parkrun the rest of the week you may spend recovering and not being able to do those training runs means eventually you will plateau in your 5 K. progression so my advice, if you’re serious about seeing an improvement in your 5 K. time would be to pick apart con every month 1 or 2 I would say as a maximum to treat as you a race and say 1 part 1 a month you go all out you give your you see, if you can but you’ll pay day and for the remaining 3 you just treat them as training runs so for example 1 week you might want to just do them as an easy run and another week you might want to put in a little bit more assets so you say at tempo S. that around 6070 percent, but yeah I’d recommend 1 S. amount allows you to build your training up and and it prevents fatigue and plateauing in your 5 K. time tip number 3 is to pick a foster course not in the U. K. we are lucky enough to have 714 park runs across the country, and some of these are completely flat some of these are completely Haley some are even on sound like the great Yarmouth parkrun nobody’s ever broken 20 minutes that and it is definitely on my list, so I’ll see you soon great Yarmouth parkrun the train in which you run it you 5 K. parkrun can make a big big difference on your time, so my advice would be to a little bit of popcorn toys and visit some of the fastest parkrun in the country ones tonight Victoria dock parkrun in London and 1 of my personal favorites is eating popcorn in Norwich another new 1 that started up recently is Chuck well beach parkrun which is an out and back along the coast down in south end, so yeah give a different park on a guy and not can maybe take 1 even 2 minutes. Of your popcorn time just depending on the terrain in which you’re running on, I’m not brings me on to my fourth and final test in today’s video and not is don’t be afraid to to run for the annual race distance in training.
So it is a common misconception that if you’re training to improve your 5 K. time you don’t need to run further than 5 K. in your training longer runs out she can really really help improve your aerobic capacity now 5 K. running is 90 percent aerobic and 10 percent on aerobic, so it’s only that lost soul of 0 me to sprint that you really need the speed to go above your lactate threshold and push your body to the limits the rest of it should be fairly controlled in the on the road in the era of things, I’m sorry nothing preview aerobic acetate one of the best ways you can do, this is by doing long runs now when you’re starting off in your 5 K. training you might want to try and went towards a 45 minute long run, I’m slowly gradually build up to around our 30 minute knock now in the 5 K. training that can mean running anything from 8 kilometers all the way up to 20 kilometers and your 5 K. training feel long run parent these runs, I would recommend doing these at an easy pace so in that zone 2 and conversational pace on these runs can really help improve your aerobic capacity which, then when you reduce the distance down again to the 5 K. you can really see an improvement in your speed so that we go for tents today to improve your parkrun, I hope you found them interesting and you can start implementing into your training I will say as I said earlier any changes you make to a training plans, you need to do then gradually if you didn’t too quickly you can result in injury which can then be detrimental to your training, so it’s all about learning what your body can take slowly adopting your training regime either wakes I’m building the consistency month after month after month and that is the secret in improving your 5 K. time, if you’re completely new to the channel please consider subscribing for more running related videos.
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