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Finished 5K Training Early, Now What?
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Finished 5K Training Early, Now What?

Hello, I just finished week 8 run 2 and had my fastest overall pace ever 6min 50 sec per km over 8 km. I run every other day. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I could run that far. Even back in high school, I was always a sprinter never long distance.

I was able to complete this week’s exercise and all of the free form runs I was jogging. Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely suffered doing this, but that’s part of the process.

Now I have about two weeks before the first 5K I’m signed up to run. Should I go ahead and run the 5K in week eight, go back and repeat a couple of weeks, or finish the couch to 5K program and move on deeper into the app?

Photo of my regular running partner included

u/brown2295 — 3 days ago

Sunday debriefing - May 17, 2026 - post your mission reports here!

Greetings, runners!

This is a post made by the Advanced Unmanned Training Officer and Morale Officer, Digitally Enhanced Report Aggregator, and Tactical Operation Reviewer (A.U.T.O.M.O.D.E.R.A.T.O.R.)

Submit your weekly mission reports and / or the outputs of your Advanced Personal Pedometers (A.P.P.s) into this RoffleNet thread for peer review!

Signed,

A.U.T.O.M.O.D.E.R.A.T.O.R, as appointed by the Abel Township Council

(Ah, management. Always using stuffy language like that. What they want is for you to post your mission reports and screenshots here. They freed up the RoffleNet bandwith today, so you could talk them over with your fellow runners. Signed, your friendly neighborhood sysadmin.)

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u/AutoModerator — 4 days ago

End of s1 races

Guys I’ve been using zr for almost a year but there’s been a lot of not running as I kept getting injured. Have cut back to running twice a week to manage this and made my way through the c25k training program.

I was so pleased to be back on the main story and was shocked at the s1 finale (I hadn’t even realised it was near the end of the season) but now I’m struggling with the long distance races.

I only run 5k at a time max, it’s normally 4k, so it’s going to take me at least a week for the 10k, and easily 2 for the 20k. Having to stop a run halfway just doesn’t hit the spot. And I tried doing the 5k new canton race but I was so confused I thought it was an error in the app until I read on here that it’s meant to be confusing.

I’m tempted to run more frequently so I can progress but also know that way leads to injury. Any other runner 5s been through this?

TLDR I really wanna skip ahead to season 2 and find out what the flip is going on post s1 finale.

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u/Odd_Baby758 — 11 days ago

When are episodes 3&4 being released?

The news letter said two a week in May, the first episodes dropped on the 2nd of May so shouldn’t the next two have dropped on the 9th?

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u/1manfailure — 10 days ago

Radio mode bug?

So, after each mission I have radio mode turned on. I'm finding recently though that the radio mode broadcasts are just playing back to back. Anyone know why or if there is a fix? It used to be a broadcast then some music for a while, then a other broadcast.

Android 16 App version 12.4.4

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u/vespasianvs_1 — 10 days ago
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Chronology/Timeline

In an attempt to update Tumblr user scorrigan's Chronology with some of the newer missions, I currently have the following and would like community input. Currently, I have updated his post to include The Way of All Flesh, Virtual Race 17 and The Brunswick Incident missions. I currently have removed VR10 from his list as the Zombies Run Fandom does not have it listed as canon although that may just be an oversight. It's not super specific. Please let me know your thoughts. I'm also curious where the community believes Virtual Race 11 takes place. It's clearly a sequel to Train to Oban, but seems to take place much later. Did I miss anything?

Before

VR8: Train to Oban

VR4: European Rescue Force

VR2: Nuclear Threat

VR17: Running on Fumes

The Way of All Flesh

Season 1

S1M1: Jolly Alpha Five Niner

ZR5K

S1M2: Distraction

SUPPLY: Decoy Duty

S1M3: Lay of the Land

SUPPLY: Ammo Run

S1M4: A Lost Child

SUPPLY: Fuel Run

S1M5: Paul Revere

S1M6: Supply Run

S1M7: A Voice in the Dark

S1M8: The Old Mill

SUPPLY: Medicine Run

SUPPLY: Food Supply Run

S1M9: Recovery

SUPPLY: Tech Supply Run

VR7: Tomorrow Island

S1M10: Tess

S1BI: Hands

S1BI: Eyes

S1BI: Ears

S1BI: Guts

S1BI: Brains

S1M11: Back to School

S1M12: Alternates

S1M13: A Regular Meds Run

S1M14: Patient 29

ATRM1: Ultra-Violet: 5k

ATRM2: Visiting Van Ark: 10k

ATRM3: Jeffro Complex: 20k

NCRM1: Big Cheese: 5k

NCRM2: Etymology: 10k

NCRM3: Plasmapheresis: 20k

S1M15: Virtuous Circle

SUPPLY: Entertainment Run

VR3: The Xia-Hifa Heist

S1M16: Scouting Mission

S1M17: Information Exchange

VR1: Run for Abel

S1M18: Eavesdropping

VR6: Tactical Zombie Division

S1M19: An Unimportant Mission

S1M20: Listen In

S1M21: Siege

S1M22: Horde

S1M23: Aftermath

Season 2

S2M1: Back Once Again

S2M2: From The Ashes

S2M3: Walking On Broken Glass

S2M4: We Used To Be Friends

S2M5: Ghosts

S2M6: Let The Dogs Come Out

S2M7: Mummy’s Hand

S2M8: Chicken Payback

S2M9: All Together Now

S2S1: Canada

S2M10: Holding Out For A Hero

S2S2: Headcount

S2M11: The Kids Are Alright

S2M12: Relight My Fire

S2S3: Whack-A-Mole

S2S4: Times New Roaming

S2M13: SOS

S2M14: You’re Rocking The Boat

S2M15: Hounds Of Love

S2S5: Top 40

S2S6: Trefoil

S2M16: Electric Dreams

S2M17: The Object Is A Hungry Wolf

S2M18: Dark And Long

S2M19: Dare

S2M20: Toxic

S2S7: War Is The Answer

S2M21: Always Take The Weather

S2S8: Interview With a Girl Guide

S2M22: No Future

S2M23: Galvanize

S2M24: London Calling

S2S9: Zombies, Row!

S2M25: Con Te Partiro

S2M26: S-Express

S2M27: Banditos

S2S10: Zombies, Climb!

S2S11: Zombies, Stretch!

S2S12: Search And Rescue

S2S13: Actual Cannibal Rescue Mission

S2M28: Ghost Town

S2M29: The Lion Sleeps Tonight

S2M30: Panic

S2S14: Circuit Training

S2S15: Quartermaster

S2S16: Zombies, Bike!

S2M31: Hello

S2M32: Tightrope

S2M33: Athena

S2M34: Ready To Go

S2M35: Dog Days Are Over

S2M36: One Way Or Another

S2M37: Sweet Escape

S2M38: Jailbreak

S2M39: Psycho Killer

S2M40: Little Lies

S2M41: You Know My Name

S2M42: Road To Nowhere

S2M43: The Final Countdown

S2M44: Something Good, 08

S2M45: Going Underground

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u/TrundleIsCharlie — 12 days ago

Music during chases

Since the app went to *****, chases reduce the music volume for the entire chase. A few years ago, the volume was only lowered for the notification itself, not for the full duration of the chase.

Are there any plans to revert this, or is there a setting to change that behavior?

It’s really frustrating to have the music toned down at the exact moment when you need that extra motivation the most.

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u/Egobrane — 13 days ago

Any experience with /e/OS?

Hi Fives, I've been thinking about making my next phone a Murena fairphone because I run on spite and want to make life as hard as I can for our tech overlords, but I simply can't do that unless I know for sure I can bring Abel Township with me.

Has anyone here tried ZR with an /e/OS phone?

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u/point051 — 13 days ago