The Running Thread Mk II

Increaed my distance today by 0.2 miles Aiming for 8 on the weekend and then 10 the following week

I have an important fitness test on Friday, so I'm looking for advice on how much rest to leave myself beforehand.

I went for a run yesterday as well as doing press-ups & sit-ups and feel a little bit sore from it (only a little bit, I should stress). Would it be better for me to run today & tomorrow before having Thursday off before my fitness test? Or should I rest today, run tomorrow, rest Thursday before my fitness test?

Doesn't matter that much tbh, maybe a longer run today, shorter tomorrow then rest should you decide on running both days

Passed my fitness test, which is pretty great, as I was ****ting bricks before & during it. Though run part of it was solid, easiest part of it & I was well in control & comfortably under the pass time. Press-ups & sit-ups were more difficult, so I'll need to focus on those more.

My next fitness test will involve a bleep test, where I need to achieve 9.10 on it. This is complete jargon to me. All I know is it's supposedly a lot more difficult than running a 2.4km in 10 minutes. So to train for this, as it's my understanding that bleep tests are more stamina orientated, would I be better off putting in longer runs? Are bleep tests very physically intense or is it just a test of pure stamina?

I estimate I have a good 2 months or so before this stage, so time is on my side. But I don't want to turn up just scraping past, huffing & puffing, bringing up the rear. I don't want to be the leader & 'win' or anything, just be comfortable etc.

Nice one on the 2.4km test!

As for the bleep test, I've not done one before, but I do know it's quite a bit different to running. You have to run a short distance, stop and turn around, and do that over and over. The stopping and starting and changing direction is what makes it different. For that reason you can get bad runners who post high scores in the test and high level runners who do badly at it.

I've not idea if people train for that kind of stuff, but I guess you could do something similar to simulate it?

Is it the one where you run between the beeps and they get closer together? You keep going up a level until you can't make it back before the beep?


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Nice one on the 2.4km test!

As for the bleep test, I've not done one before, but I do know it's quite a bit different to running. You have to run a short distance, stop and turn around, and do that over and over. The stopping and starting and changing direction is what makes it different. For that reason you can get bad runners who post high scores in the test and high level runners who do badly at it.

I've not idea if people train for that kind of stuff, but I guess you could do something similar to simulate it?

Just ran 2.7 km in 1384

Is that slow or very slow?

Male or female?

For female that is pretty good I believe

For male, it's not great, but certainly not a bad starting point for a beginner! Are you training for anything specifically?

Male. Not training for anything specific just wanna get fitter and faster.

Is under 12 mins a good aim?

Yeah, that'd be a fair aim. It's a strange distance to use though. If you want to get overall fitter I'd suggest doing longer runs. For shorter, faster runs, 2.4km is a good distance as that is the distance the Armed Forces use for pre-joining fitness requirements (RAF 11:11, RAF Regt 10:30, Paras 9:30(?) etc.), so you'll see quite a lot of discussion about that particular distance across the web.