[sw030695]

5km is considered a short distance run. Within a few weeks, it's something that should be achievable in sub-20/25 minutes.

In the UK, there's a volunteer led organisation called parkrun which hosts 5km runs/races in over 1000 parks around the country every Saturday. It's quite popular. My local race consistently get 300+ entrants each week. Worth checking out: https://www.parkrun.org.uk/

5km, 10km, half marathon and marathon are the main running distances. Less than 5km is generally stuff run on athletics tracks, which falls under athletics.

[gghhzzgghhzz]

> Within a few weeks, it's something that should be achievable in sub-20/25 minutes.

I wish it was that easy.

I trained hard for a year and barely made it under 24.

I guess it depends on age and if you are carrying around a bit of extra weight.

5K is a wonderful distance though. You can walk it in an hour, walk / jog it in 40, jog it in 30 .. then a whole world of gradual improvements and mind games open up to get you from there to 20 mins.

[aembleton]

I've been running for years and my parkrun PB is just over 25 minutes, but I am also very overweight. I think, after a few weeks of Couch to 5K, getting anything under 35 minutes would be a big achievement.