[tw1010]

I used to be sceptical that the concept of overtraining was a thing, but it definitely is. Just saying that running every day consistently might not necessarily be good for you in the long run. Listen to your body.

[danielbln]

Agreed, "listen to your body." is really important advice. I've been running every day without exception for 1252 days now, and there have been really slow, really short (2k) runs whenever I felt my body needed a bit more leeway for recovery. It takes some practice and it's not for everyone, but daily/streak running can be transformative (and was/is for me).

[thorin]

When people started talking about running every day, the first thing that came to mind was Ron Hill:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/20...

[jakobegger]

A 5km run is probably between 30-45min activity. If you run at a medium pace, I don't think that would be an issue.

If run as fast as you can, I agree that you should take breaks.

[yibg]

Depends on what your body is telling you. If your kneed are killing you half way through you might want to stop and take a break for a few days.

[lvturner]

Or change shoes - my knees constantly hurt whenever I ran until I switched to more barefoot style shoes.

Really transformed running for me. It went from something I was terrible at, which hurt and I hated, to something I merely hated.