u/RapidHype

(20M, 50km weekly mileage, 400km ytd) I’ve recently hit my dream goal of running a sub 20 minute 5k after 8 months of running, around 4 months of intentionally increasing mileage and roughly 6 weeks of incorporating admittedly on and off speed work.
For additional context, I weighed just under 100kg (and ran just about sub30) in January having bulked up as I played American Football in my first year of uni (albeit a benchwarmer) and would consider myself adept at the gym (4 years plus experience).
I no longer play American Football and i’m all
in on running and have lost \\\\\\\~18kg currently sitting at 80-82kg, planning to lean down mainly for physique purposes but also the running gains.
I’m currently on 50km a week and very much enjoy and have felt enthralled with the art of running, especially the psychological side and the cool way pushing yourself still feels as hard as that first run did and the patience and self restraint required to follow a plan that may not necessarily be the most enjoyable. My weekly plan is a 16-20km long run, then either a 6x1k @5k pace or/and a longer threshold run, then i fill the rest with easy runs and i go to the gym 3-4x a week mostly upper body and light lower body stuff.

Asides from that, I enjoy having a running goal to actively work towards and so am now looking for a new intermediary goal before my first marathon in April. I’m between a sub40 10k and a sub1:30 half, i’m aware a sub40 is harder to achieve than the half but that’s the beauty of a challenge like that.
My main dilemma is i’m planning on doing a Hyrox mid Octoger which lends itself more to the 10k but it’s (conventional?) wisdom to book a half so as to get the race day practice and have a reasonable anchor for the full. I wouldn’t mind scrapping the hyrox but it seems fun and wouldn’t mind giving it a go but wouldn’t be able to stack a half on top of that.

I’m also open to any other challenging/stretching goals especially one that complements my marathon training very well for which I’m aiming for sub3 (ambitiously) and 3:15 (realistically)

(20M, 50km weekly mileage, 400km ytd) I’ve recently hit my dream goal of running a sub 20 minute 5k after 8 months of running, around 4 months of intentionally increasing mileage and roughly 6 weeks of incorporating admittedly on and off speed work.
For additional context, I weighed just under 100kg (and ran just about sub30) in January having bulked up as I played American Football in my first year of uni (albeit a benchwarmer) and would consider myself adept at the gym (4 years plus experience).
I no longer play American Football and i’m all
in on running and have lost \\\~18kg currently sitting at 80-82kg, planning to lean down mainly for physique purposes but also the running gains.
I’m currently on 50km a week and very much enjoy and have felt enthralled with the art of running, especially the psychological side and the cool way pushing yourself still feels as hard as that first run did and the patience and self restraint required to follow a plan that may not necessarily be the most enjoyable.

Asides from that, I enjoy having a running goal to actively work towards and so am now looking for a new intermediary goal before my first marathon in April. I’m between a sub40 10k and a sub1:30 half, i’m aware a sub40 is harder to achieve than the half but that’s the beauty of a challenge like that.
My main dilemma is i’m planning on doing a Hyrox mid Octoger which lends itself more to the 10k but it’s (conventional?) wisdom to book a half so as to get the race day practice and have a reasonable anchor for the full. I wouldn’t mind scrapping the hyrox but it seems fun and wouldn’t mind giving it a go but wouldn’t be able to stack a half on top of that.

I’m also open to any other challenging/stretching goals especially one that complements my marathon training very well for which I’m aiming for sub3 (ambitiously) and 3:15 (realistically)