@everyone else. Continue with what you are doing, you are doing great and as we have all said at some point enjoy it, and all the fun of the kit buying in the process.
Pitch
Spot on. Running and enjoying it (or in my case enjoying after I have finished!) is what it is all about - and that is whether your time for 5k is 17, 27, or 37 (I wont go higher than that)
This is a forum where most people have spent thousands of pounds on watches they don't need and that don't keep as time as well as a £10 Casio. Decent running shoes seems a bit of an odd target in that context.