re: 10-week 5k training plan (under 20min)

Unfortunately, I've never had a training partner besides my wife who is a lot slower. My little brother just placed first in his age group in an Olympic tri in MI this am, but he lives...in MI.

I agree I need to find one. Tracking everything with my watch and apps has really helped so far, but I need to get plugged into a group to get where I want to be.

My knee is a major obstacle. At the end of the 15-16 ski season I couldn't walk for a couple days and was in extreme pain. After a half marathon that July (15) and then some biking without having trained for either properly, my 70lb all-muscle dog ran full speed into the side of my knee. A few weeks later I had water on the outside and the inside started really hurting. I skied on it all season anyway. Miraculously my PT + a year of rest (swam and did other low impact activity) got it working without surgery.

So here I am. Early am in mid October in ATL will be great running weather, and I'll be in MT leading up to it, so I have a great training environment. My brother live tracks me on Strava a lot so the virtual partner is nice. I'll get in touch with a running club. Atl track club is big for when I'm back there.

I know my body and mind are capable if I can get knee to cooperate. I've run 6min miles in 10ks before, so should be able to string together 3 6:26 miles in a row....