Is it important to have a running goal? Some folks need to work towards a marathon, or a personal-best 5K time, in order to maintain the motivation to train. I haven’t really felt that way in the five ...

Middle-aged mum and poet P Burton-Morgan on the redemptive power of running and why it pays to prioritise recovery ...

She sails past me in the first few hundred metres of parkrun, fluorescent gloves flashing as she goes. I’m used to this now. Alice Riddell-Webster is a year older than I am and in the same age group – ...

Everyone wants to end their year on a high – and this was certainly the case for two-time Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet, who closed out her stellar 2024 as the fastest-ever woman to run 5K. On 31 ...

Thanks to the proliferation of that 5K-long, free-of-charge running phenomenon which sweeps the nation and beyond every Saturday, better known as parkrun, running faster over 5K sits high on many ...

Certain factors can influence 5K running times, such as age, sex, and level of ability and experience. A person’s 5K running time is the time that it takes them to run 5 kilometers, which is ...