5k everyday challenge.

5k every single day is alot! i ran too much last year and ended up with tendonitis so be careful!

but i saw some good advice about how to get you out there when you arent feeling it.....just tell yourself to run for 5 minutes and if you still dont feel like it then dont hold it against yourself, try another day, but more than likely once you have done your 5 minutes you will just carry on.
running 5k 3 or 4x a week is surely enough though

Streak running is its own discipline, and I don't totally understand it. My understanding is that most streak runners count 1 mile as enough to maintain the streak of consecutive running days.

That having been said, if you want to run 5K every day, it might be possible. You will need to be careful to avoid injury. On a lot of days when you might feel like running farther, you will need to stop at 5K. The 5K should be an easy run at least 5 days a week, preferably 6, and nothing wrong with keeping them all easy.

Motivation to actually get out and do it? I don't know. I rarely have motivation issues, and when I do they're mostly procrastination related to the weather looking worse than it really is. Get me out the door, and I run. Except on my rest days. I could never be a streak runner. I want to run too far or too hard too often to never have a rest day.

I have noticed that for streak runners, once the streak gets long enough to be brag-worthy there's a ton of motivation in not breaking the streak.

MobyCarp wrote: »

Streak running is its own discipline, and I don't totally understand it. My understanding is that most streak runners count 1 mile as enough to maintain the streak of consecutive running days.

I started a run streak on the 1st and am definitely using 1mile as my base, even though I regularly run anything up to a half marathon. For me 5km a day seems a lot, especially if you're not used to it, it took me months to work up to 4km 3-4x a week and then even longer to build my longer run up beyond that.

I take a day off sometimes and find that by the time my running day shows up on the calendar I'm motivated again. I guess I believe that for me, a recovery day is important. Just put on your running shoes and get out the door.

I have a friend who does marathons a couple of times a year, plus many short races, who is on her third or 4th year of a streak. In her case, she does at least one mile a day.

I did the holiday streak one year, running every day from Halloween to New Years. It was fun, but I was ready to stop. It takes a lot of discipline. It made my overall mileage higher, because I rarely only ran one mile, and it made it easy to transition to 6 days a week running, which I did that marathon cycle, but I like having a day off when I need or want one. It can take the fun out of running when you feel like it's more an obligation than a joy, but that can happen during race training too.

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TavistockToad wrote: »

Bad idea to go from not running to 5k every day. Start running 3x a week (less than 5k) and build up from there

They aren't going from zero though, they play football . An average midfielder will run 5k a game if they are in for most of it. So it depends on how many games a week OP plays.

There is a big difference between oikball and running. I've run with regular players, and wiped them on even a short distance like 5K.

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spiriteagle99 wrote: »

I have a friend who does marathons a couple of times a year, plus many short races, who is on her third or 4th year of a streak. In her case, she does at least one mile a day.

I've wondered about streak runners who run marathons. How easy do you have to run the marathon to be able to run a mile the next day? I had my best marathon recovery to date after Boston 2017, but I still wouldn't have wanted to run a mile the next day.

Hmm. Maybe if I just hang with the 3:30 pacer at Rochester I'll be in such good shape that I can do a recovery run the next day. Or maybe not. A lot depends on the weather.

Once you've done a few marathons you get used to it. I did a 5K hill run the morning after my first full, a 10K the night of the full I did in May and have a 50K on a Saturday with marathon on the Sunday in September. You just adapt.

That said, these are all trail races. Roads leave me feeling beaten up.

gobonas99 wrote: »

Streaking is a bad idea overall: "athletes participating in cycling challenges or running streaks open themselves up to a higher risk of injury due to the increased volume and constant impact forces being absorbed by the body. Rest and recovery are two of the most vital things in an athlete’s training plan; as I say often, “train hard, recover harder.” Rest and recovery is more than just physical; athletes also need a mental break from training, and weekly rest days provide that. This is especially true for age-group athletes who are balancing training with work, parenting and the other tasks of day-to-day life. Many multi-day challenges inherently do not embrace this philosophy, and it can be a dangerous road to embark on as it can lead to overtraining, fatigue and burnout." Source

In general, I agree with this, but you can remain true to the laws of the streak and still work in some rest by running early morning one day and late evening the next. Not a full rest "day" but certainly could be up to 36 hours or more of rest (rather than 48).

I also agree that a 5k a day would be tough for most casual runners, and that one mile keeps the streak alive.

TavistockToad wrote: »

MobyCarp wrote: »

TavistockToad wrote: »

firef1y72 wrote: »

MobyCarp wrote: »

Streak running is its own discipline, and I don't totally understand it. My understanding is that most streak runners count 1 mile as enough to maintain the streak of consecutive running days.

I started a run streak on the 1st and am definitely using 1mile as my base, even though I regularly run anything up to a half marathon. For me 5km a day seems a lot, especially if you're not used to it, it took me months to work up to 4km 3-4x a week and then even longer to build my longer run up beyond that.

I am very tempted to do your mile a day for August but I'm also HM training so not convinced it's a good idea...

I don't think streak running is compatible with training for a fast time in a long race. The way the calendar fell, I put 3 miles onto my regularly scheduled rest day once in June, a 2 mile warm up and a 1 mile race on a track. It was the shortest running distance of any running day I had that month, and I was whipped and ready for a rest day after a 13 day running streak. I expect that real streak runners won't be running the volume that I am, and probably won't be doing the volume of speed work that I'm doing in marathon training. But that's okay. Maintaining a streak is a different goal from finishing a marathon or a half marathon fast.

Could I be a streak runner with a minimum of 5K per day? Maybe. But I won't find out, because I like marathon training too much. And with marathon training, I definitely need rest days.

Yeah, I'll maybe find a month when I am not training for something... December maybe...

I don't have my next half until the end of August (only got a race 4 life 5k this month) , no way I'd try the mile a day in August itself, not that I'm in anyway fast, I'm a plodder who Jeffs, for me it's about finishing and being glad that I can after all 2 years ago I was so overweight I needed crutches to get across the room.