"The not so fast" fastet 5k

Today we walked down to the park at 1:00 with the intention of staying for a few minutes. It was so nice outside and we ended up getting "lost" there for almost 2 hours. I love nice weather.
Saturday I ran a 5k in 26.58 minutes. And it was hard. I had to take a nap to sleep off the exhaustion. Sadly, I think that is my best time ever it is a 8.42 minute/mile. That sounds so slow to me. There are people that run 4 minute miles...I have never even ran a 6 minute mile. I need to work on my speed. I have had grand intentions on doing so for a few months now, and I keep putting it off...I think mostly because I know it will hurt....But I have never been scared of a little pain, I just need to get 'er done. I did go to curves with my mom last week and did butt kicks and high knees the whole time. That is supposed to help right? What I really want is a running coach. I wish I had taken track in high school, I thought you had to be a good runner to be in track. What I wish I had known back then, is that somebody's gotta lose and it may as well be me since I would be getting free work outs in exchange for my pride.
PS I didn't learn that lesson till college when I didn't have rent money for SUU and I signed up to be an RA in the scary dorms in exchange for free rent and my pride. It was so worth it.