Hello there! It's December now, whoops lol.
Fitness update: I ran the Philly marathon, completing my mission to run 3 halves and 3 fulls this year. I feel like the mission was accomplished once I signed up. Next year I will set the bar a bit higher as far as attainability, i.e. I will set goals that I know I may fail at. Actually one of those goals is to run a sub 4:20. I also want to PR my 5K, 10K, and run a sub 2:00 half. And there are my 2015 goals lol.
Another thing I really want to work at is staying in running shape in between training sessions. Normally I train for a marathon, run the marathon, get incredibly out of running shape, repeat. The first day of marathon training is usually a 3 mile run and I usually struggle through that run at an incredibly slow pace. I'd like to not start my next training plan that way. I think a good baseline level of fitness is 8 miles. When I can run 8 miles easy, I race well. So this is the goal. I am learning that this may not be as difficult as I think. After Hartford, my training really slowed down (work and traveling), but I was still able to break 4:40 for Philly. Anything less than 4:40 is a good run for me. And after Philly, I had another small hiatus, so I expected to run slow for the 15K (9.3 miles) I had this weekend, but I ran a really good pace, 7 seconds per mile faster than the 10 M race I did when I was training. Again I'm seeing that it doesn't have to be all or nothing.
Best of luck with your goals for 2015!
Fitness update: I ran the Philly marathon, completing my mission to run 3 halves and 3 fulls this year. I feel like the mission was accomplished once I signed up. Next year I will set the bar a bit higher as far as attainability, i.e. I will set goals that I know I may fail at. Actually one of those goals is to run a sub 4:20. I also want to PR my 5K, 10K, and run a sub 2:00 half. And there are my 2015 goals lol.
Another thing I really want to work at is staying in running shape in between training sessions. Normally I train for a marathon, run the marathon, get incredibly out of running shape, repeat. The first day of marathon training is usually a 3 mile run and I usually struggle through that run at an incredibly slow pace. I'd like to not start my next training plan that way. I think a good baseline level of fitness is 8 miles. When I can run 8 miles easy, I race well. So this is the goal. I am learning that this may not be as difficult as I think. After Hartford, my training really slowed down (work and traveling), but I was still able to break 4:40 for Philly. Anything less than 4:40 is a good run for me. And after Philly, I had another small hiatus, so I expected to run slow for the 15K (9.3 miles) I had this weekend, but I ran a really good pace, 7 seconds per mile faster than the 10 M race I did when I was training. Again I'm seeing that it doesn't have to be all or nothing.
Best of luck with your goals for 2015!
