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

I ran an 18:50 5k years ago.

My 25+ min 5k the other day is the best I've done since knee injury. And the 2:16 half was on just barely having started running again. I did a few 7-8 milers in the month before the half, and then ran 14 the day before. Just because.

It's going to come down to how hard I can push my knee.

I could run a 5-min mile in college (just one at a time), so I know my overall makeup is capable of decent speed, age notwithstanding.

If the knee acts up, then I'll just have to back off the goal.

I have never really trained for speed. I've done some 10ks in the high 40s, but that was just pushing myself in the race without having trained.

I'm just going to have 20 as a goal and train toward that end without risking injury. If this wasn't a race for the very Institute that cured my cancer, in my backyard (the curing and the race), just four months after my last treatment, then I probably wouldn't push it. But it just sort of popped in my head as something to do--a symbolic thing. It isn't worth wrecking my knee though.