One of my goals for the year is to be more consistent with speed work. Instead of making it a vague goal, I've put detail to it by committing to run a 5k each week of the year (that's 52 of them) in less than 20 minutes. My PR is 18:21 from a couple years ago, so while it's not particularly earth shattering, it's a good effort for me, not something I can just jog through. I'm hoping to get a little faster each month to set a new PR by December. Most of the runs will be on the track local to my house at West Millbrook Middle School, though a few of them will be actual races (on certified courses).
5k/wk
Week 1: 19:27
Week 2: 19:28 (harder effort, due to mileage of last week)
Week 3: 19:01 (good run, hard effort, but felt strong, didn't realize I was on this pace)
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7 comments:
looking forward to following this very challenging undertaking brad.
good luck!
hey carl, do you have any big plans for the year?
Just Barkley
but then you've got like 8 months of the year left!
I hate you. (Except that I don't hate you - I just hate that it's week one and you've already met your goal.) Except I don't even really hate that....I mean the fact that you already met your goal pretty much rocks! (I'm just jealous.) Does this mean you can take the rest of the year off? :)
@Rachel...I haven't met the goal yet...I have to do it each week for the year, in hopes, of course, of getting faster throughout the year. But I did meet 1/52nd of my goal for the year so far...
@Brad - Oops. Misunderstood your goal. Okay - I don't hate you anymore. Carry on. :)
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