Running - I am so slow! Any advice?

[anchovies]

I started just before Christmas and can now run fairly comfortably for 10km but it is taking me about 65-70 minutes which is painfully slow. I am still quite overweight (despite having lost 3 stone since I started) so I think that is not helping but I just cant seem to go any faster.

My dh does triathlon so is superfit (sub 35 min 10km) and just keeps saying helpful things like "if you want to run faster - just run faster".

In some ways it is good as I am very consistent, same slow pace whether up a massive hill or coming down the other side. So am just wondering is it worth trying to get faster or should I just resign myself to the fact I am always going to be slow?!

Just thought I'd pop back with an update!

Thanks for all the advice everyone, did some reading about intervals and looked up the speed training thing for the iPod but thought I'd experiment first on tonights run with increasing my stride slightly. So set off with a longer stride, was feeling good and managed a relatively easy 10km in 61 minutes! The strangest thing was it was actually easier than normal! So cheers speedy gonzalez you can really polish your running badge - 5 minutes off my usual time and a much easier run!

Wow that's good!

ooh thanks for that i want to get bit quicker too - i am doing a 10k race tonight so will try and lenghten my stride

Woo hoo, great news anchovies! (I ain't called Speedy for nuthin'!) ;)

How'd the race go, racmac?