The Student Room Group
Reply 1
There is no specific time, everyone's different.
As long as you're increasing sensibly and not, say, an hour a week, then run as long as you like, it'll get easier. Just be careful of shin splints and things like that...
Reply 3
depends on the person...nowadays 30 mins a day is too much for me.

I used to do a good 10 miles each morning though
Reply 4
are you sure there's no maximum aomount thats just too much, 30 mins is an effort atm but i can do it, how long should it be before i increase this and how much by? What if i carried on for a year surely getting to two hours a day of continous running can't be sensible!
Reply 5
It depends how fit you are. Only you know how far you can push your body. There's no point asking such a ridiculous question as, clearly, (as Chi3f also said), your own fitness is personal to you. We don't know!
Reply 6
ive already said i can run only 30 mins a day! So thats my personal fitness level!
Reply 7
If you want to build up then build it up every now and again. I dont run anymore but when i used to i used to build up 10 minutes a week. So i started with running 10 mins every day for a week and then 20 for a week, it gets easier trust me. I finished off at hour and a half.
Reply 8
Cano234
If you want to build up then build it up every now and again. I dont run anymore but when i used to i used to build up 10 minutes a week. So i started with running 10 mins every day for a week and then 20 for a week, it gets easier trust me. I finished off at hour and a half.
okay so next week i'll try running 10 minutes more. Did you run every day, i do three days then have a days rest because muscles need to rest and repair do they not?
Reply 9
Bluelight
okay so next week i'll try running 10 minutes more. Did you run every day, i do three days then have a days rest because muscles need to rest and repair do they not?


I ran 4 days a week, in fact i might start doing it again soon so will have to start at 10 minutes again. Thats the best i can advise. If you cant manage an increase of 10 minutes, go by 5 minutes.
Reply 10
thanks for the help! I reckon i'll up it by 5 mintues a week because im sure i can't go up by ten, its too much for me :redface:
Reply 11
I run quite a bit. At the moment i do it by distance. I'm rusty at the moment as i have just come back to it literally this past week. I ran a circuit of about 4km everyday this week - (sometimes morning and evening), but my fitness is shocking atm. I will contine to run 4km (but i will do it twice a day this week) and next week, i will extend the circuit to 5km. My fitness used to be quite good.

It greatly depends on how your fitness changes. For instance, it only took me 3 runs this week to notice a real change in time over the same distance. Best thing is to take it slowly. If you want to run a lot, sometimes little and often is better that hammering yourself for an hour.

Try working out a circuit (footpaths - roads etc.) and then do it early morning and late evening. In your case, do 30 mins morning, 30 mins evening (if you feel you can handle twice a day). Then increase both running times by 5 minutes or whatever. Personally, i feel doing 4km (2.5 miles) twice a day is enough to really get my fitness progressing. Drop me a PM at the end of the week, let me know how you feel your runs are changing.
Reply 12
Thats fine, good luck with it anyway.
Reply 13
toto8462
I run quite a bit. At the moment i do it by distance. I'm rusty at the moment as i have just come back to it literally this past week. I ran a circuit of about 4km everyday this week - (sometimes morning and evening), but my fitness is shocking atm. I will contine to run 4km (but i will do it twice a day this week) and next week, i will extend the circuit to 5km. My fitness used to be quite good.

It greatly depends on how your fitness changes. For instance, it only took me 3 runs this week to notice a real change in time over the same distance. Best thing is to take it slowly. If you want to run a lot, sometimes little and often is better that hammering yourself for an hour.

Try working out a circuit (footpaths - roads etc.) and then do it early morning and late evening. In your case, do 30 mins morning, 30 mins evening (if you feel you can handle twice a day). Then increase both running times by 5 minutes or whatever. Personally, i feel doing 4km (2.5 miles) twice a day is enough to really get my fitness progressing. Drop me a PM at the end of the week, let me know how you feel your runs are changing.
cheers and will do!
Reply 14
Ahh btw. If like me you run on roads, you have to take it slower than your fitness allows. You may FEEL you can run for longer, but you can screw your calf muscles and get shin splints and even nasty stress fractures (keep you from running for at least 6 weeks) and this is not good. Lookg out for pains on the front of you shin (particularly lower down). If you get them, get an ice pack on them after your run. Take at least the next day off from running, and tune down the amount of running for the next couple of days. If it keeps happening, (over a long period of time) see a doctor, you will most likely get sent for an x-ray to check for stress fractures (which may put you on crutches if present!)

It may sound heavy and serious advice, but they are most common in eager new runners. Take care, you have been warned...
Reply 15
lol ,ive heard about the dangers of running on road but luckily there's lkots of greenery i can run on , its rather hard grass, but its better than concrete i suppose!