With one week left until my running leg of the Hyde Park Triathlon, I visited Bupa's London branch for a fitness assessment. The aim? To find out if I've got the potential to run a sub 20-minute 5K at my current level of fitness and if not, then how

'd realised how far off the pace I actually was it was too late (sprint or no). Lessons learnt, I'm still very disappointed and now very sceptical about hitting a sub-20 minute 5K. Although I've had some pretty quick training times, I think I've been a little

Marathon. As you can see from my Garmin stats, the distance is slightly less than 5K. So, as yet, I can't officially boast about running sub 20-minutes.I ran this time at the peak of my physical fitness. It was two weeks before the London Marathon, after

Time to work out a training schedule. The triathlon is now 8 weeks away. That's more than enough time to give me a fighting chance of running a sub 20-minute 5K. I'm booked into the Standard Chartered Great City Race, which takes place 4 weeks

exposed arse cheeks. Even the race numbers are hard to work out (the numbers are attached using pieces of elastic and a clip to a stretchy belt that goes around your waist, which I broke).So if I wasn’t nervous enough already about breaking a 20-minute 5K

James Barnard is Multimedia Designer at Runner's World, and blogs about running as Sir Jogalot (www.sirjogalot.com). He paced the 11-minute mile group at this year's Virgin London Marathon - the following is an excerpt from his blog.Two words sum up