Week 2 - First 5K Run - Increasing the distance

Start of the 2nd Week and I want to crank it up a little.  I was looking at 2 options; 1 - get my 4k down to 25 mins OR set my first 5K time. On reflection, it seemed more logical to get the distance up - I am not looking to enter a race so I need to increase the distance!

I had decided before hand to set some targets though. First one being that I wanted to run to the start of the big hill without stopping, and the other was decrease the amount of walking breaks, particularly on the down hill sections and, of course, finally push it out to 5k.

Generally very happy with this run, nearly did the first km in under 6 and the graphs show that I kept it going even part way up the first hill, then walked to the top and kept it going again to the flats on the first lap. Despite the walk, still managed a 6:18 on the second lap.
3rd km clearly a bit more ropey with needing to stop to a walk a few too many times but on the 4th km, managed to recover enough energy to run most of the downhill and flat but then, not unexpectedly, faltering on the last km.  No sprint finish but this is because the odd kilometres finish on a hill, but the even ones are at the end of the downhill.

Next targets then are (want to accomplish these before the end of the week):

• Complete the first km in under 6 minutes
• reach the top of the hill without slowing to a walk
• Complete 2km without slowing to a walk
• Complete 5km in between 30 and 31 minutes

I also want to research doing proper warm ups / cool downs as I have a concern that I am not warming up correctly. Mostly because my legs start to feel very heavy on the first lap but then seem to loosen on the second.

Also, I do not take water with me on the run but my mouth was starting to feel very dry, will look into hydration on the run for some tips.