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What are good 5k and 10k times?

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Badgoushk · 18/07/2017 14:39

Hello, I vowed to be fit by 40 and am doing Couch to 5k and enjoying it. I will probably look to progress to 10k when I'm done. I'd like to sign up for a couple of races and my questions are:

  1. What's a respectable time for a 5k?
  2. What's a good time for a 5k that a fit person would achieve?
  3. Same for a respectable 10k?
  4. A good 10k?
Thanks
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GlowWine · 18/07/2017 15:29

I was asking myself the same and found this
www.pace-calculator.com

Agree with welshweasel above.
I've never run more than 7k, and now stick to 5 which at the moment takes me 31min. I am 47 and overweight too, totally not a sporty person but been running regularly, 15k-20k per week, on an off for about 6 years and again regularly since March after a winter off.

AmyGardner · 18/07/2017 14:53

For me just now it would be something like 35 and 70 minutes.

welshweasel · 18/07/2017 14:49

Ok, this is a really difficult one to answer without causing offence! My personal take on would be 30/20 for a 5k and 60/45 minutes for a 10k.

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