I'm like you...I'm looking for a 5K run, and I'm running over an hour on my long runs...but I am S- L - O - W!!! But, when I checked out the times from the same race last year, I'm not that slow!! My time for 3.1 miles is somewhere between 30 and 34 minutes (although I haven't done that shorter distance in a while to see if I'm faster), and there were MANY way below that. That made me feel a lot better!!
(also, you can go to runnersworld.com, the bulletin boards there, they have a lot of talk in the beginner's session...some are QUITE fast, but many are slower than I!)
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