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by logosmonkey 1630 days ago
About 7 or 8 hours total, slowly creeping up as my half marathon training long runs start taking more time.

Prior to starting half marathon training it was right at 6 though. 3 x per week weight training and 3 x per week 5k training runs each of those ~1 hour.

Current schedule is M/W 1 hour weight training T/T/S/Su half marathon training with long runs on Saturday. Those are starting to get above an hour as the mileage increases. In another 3 weeks or so all my runs except Sunday will average above an hour more than likely so probably get into the 8-9 hours per week territory.

At 42 I'm now healthier than I've ever been. All that time in my 20's making excuses about how I didn't have time to lift/run whatever was BS. It's far easier than people think to get into very good shape. That hour or so per day is just one less hour dicking off on the internet or watching TV or something - you won't miss it.

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1h on a 5K?
early runs when I was doing c25k were like 45 minutes. My current runs are all 4 miles or more. Additionally there's usually 10 minutes of warmup/cooldown for each run. Also I'm very slow :)
I just ran a 5k race on the 1st and I did 37:17 so that's my best in this phase of running (I previously ran somewhere in the 36's when I was younger)