Taking The Next Step In Your 10K Time

Imagine that you just finished your second 10K, sweat dripping with a feeling of accomplishment. You look down at your watch to see your time, only to be frustrated that you couldn’t beat your goal time. Occasionally, this can be a downside to running. We often can get competitive with ourselves, only to end up frustrated that we were unable to take the next step that we hoped.

Later on, you start to research ways to improve your 10K time. It gets overwhelming. There’s all these strange workouts that you see, and you don’t know where to begin. All this overwhelms leads to you defaulting back to your old training regimen and no progress is made.

Some would advocate for hiring a running coach. Most athletes are training to only compete against themselves, so I wouldn’t recommend that for most people. Here is a guide on taking the next step to hit that 10K PR that you’ve always hoped for.

Small Increases Can Yield Big Results

The general rule of thumb is to increase your weekly training mileage by 10% each week. The concept of this is a lot easier than doing it in practice.

The biggest downfall that I have with increasing my own weekly mileage is that I get impatient and want to jump up further than 10%. What ends up happening is that I get slightly burnt out and end up skipping a few runs, and my weekly mileage ends up being even LESS than what I intended.