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Learning to slow down and not do too much too fast. It’s taken me a few injuries and set backs to learn that. I see a lot of new runners online still make the mistake and inevitably they post about injuries a year or so later after they started.
I'm following the New to running (couch potato to 5k in 8 weeks) plan so hopefully I will not get injured
I did the UK variant of Couch to 5K (9 weeks, final goal is 30 minutes at any pace, not 5km) three years ago. I'd never run before in my life.
Instead of chasing pace after finishing that, I worked on increasing duration and distance. That was after realising that every time I'd forced myself to get faster I'd picked up some injury. Pace naturally increased as I got fitter.