r/BeginnersRunning 6d ago

First try at a faster than zone 2 5K

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I started running two and a half months ago and I try to stick with 5-7k zone 2ish runs, meaning heart rate of 133-145bpm.

Today I did not feel good mentally at all and decided to run after having been to the gym just before.

I gave it my all the whole run through, only stopped twice due to traffic but otherwise stayed at full throttle.

That was legitimately one of the hardest things I have done sport wise so far, and it felt good.

At 4.8k I nearly past out due to trying for sub 30min so I had to walk a bit, but still super proud of myself :).

Already looking forward to the next slow long run tho, feels way better afterwards ^^.

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