11/02/05: Recovery Run at the Gym and Running Goals for 2006…
Another fun gym run (as I have been seeming to do one-a-week now). I just get home wayyyyy too late on Wednesday’s to run at the Park (At least in my opinion, as it gets darker earlier now and I like to be done with my Memorial Park loops by 8pm, especially after Strider Lisa saw me running alone late the other day…) It was actually a good run though, as I caught myself starting to make some running goals for next year, since there are only a short 2 months left until 2006! And only 10 weeks until the BIG DAY! I think it only seems appropriate to start planning…
I think the goal that seems the most realistic to me that I made is being able to run a sub 26:00 5k by this time next year. It seems sooo crazy to me right now, but I have ran one 5k distance at UNDER 27:00 recently (without thinking about it) and I am completing 5k distances now (without pushing it or ‘trying’ to finish in a certain time) under 28:00 easily. If I continue to push myself, I think I can do this. And if I can do it, that means that in UNDER two years, I will have shaved a nice 3:30 off my first 5k time, awesome!
Other things I would like to do next year include competing in the HARRA-sponsored Iron Foot (Spring and Fall) and the Texas 10k challenge. And of course, (although technically in 2007)—the full Houston Marathon. I think what excites me the most about running it then (in 2007) is that my longest runs by the time I start training with the SMARTies again will have been 15 miles. That means I am a cool 11 miles away from the actually 26.2 miles—and that seems ‘doable.’ I have known many people train for their first marathon and only have run 5-6 milers as their longest runs ever prior to marathon training. I would like to think that all my half-marathon training will come in handy as I start those first few long runs. Afterall, my mentality with my half training has been ‘halfway there’ to where I WILL start/finish in 2007—the full freaking marathon!!!! Yeah!
The STATS:
4 miles
40:52 total running
ave 10:13/mile
Heart-rate: n/a
Weather: a/c
Another fun gym run (as I have been seeming to do one-a-week now). I just get home wayyyyy too late on Wednesday’s to run at the Park (At least in my opinion, as it gets darker earlier now and I like to be done with my Memorial Park loops by 8pm, especially after Strider Lisa saw me running alone late the other day…) It was actually a good run though, as I caught myself starting to make some running goals for next year, since there are only a short 2 months left until 2006! And only 10 weeks until the BIG DAY! I think it only seems appropriate to start planning…
I think the goal that seems the most realistic to me that I made is being able to run a sub 26:00 5k by this time next year. It seems sooo crazy to me right now, but I have ran one 5k distance at UNDER 27:00 recently (without thinking about it) and I am completing 5k distances now (without pushing it or ‘trying’ to finish in a certain time) under 28:00 easily. If I continue to push myself, I think I can do this. And if I can do it, that means that in UNDER two years, I will have shaved a nice 3:30 off my first 5k time, awesome!
Other things I would like to do next year include competing in the HARRA-sponsored Iron Foot (Spring and Fall) and the Texas 10k challenge. And of course, (although technically in 2007)—the full Houston Marathon. I think what excites me the most about running it then (in 2007) is that my longest runs by the time I start training with the SMARTies again will have been 15 miles. That means I am a cool 11 miles away from the actually 26.2 miles—and that seems ‘doable.’ I have known many people train for their first marathon and only have run 5-6 milers as their longest runs ever prior to marathon training. I would like to think that all my half-marathon training will come in handy as I start those first few long runs. Afterall, my mentality with my half training has been ‘halfway there’ to where I WILL start/finish in 2007—the full freaking marathon!!!! Yeah!
The STATS:
4 miles
40:52 total running
ave 10:13/mile
Heart-rate: n/a
Weather: a/c
posted by Jessica, a Austin Runner AND triathlete at
10:24 AM
1 Comments:
Great goals you have for yourself. The most important thing you seem to be doing is setting stuff that is achievable with work, and that you have such an awesome attitude towards those goals.
Keep up the great work! You're doing awesome.
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Sam, at Tue Nov 08, 09:35:00 AM
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