New Goals To Achieve

The last 4 months have brought me both memories and challenges. In December I tackled my first half marathon and then a month and half later, I took on my second half. A week later I joined up with 5 other runners and conquered a 126 mile ultramarathon. And then 3 weeks after that, I ran in my first marathon. A 10k followed that 6 days later. So, in a nutshell, I have been pretty busy for the last 4 months. But now its time to look toward the future and set out to accomplish new personal goals. One of these goals is to set new personal records in races. Some runners count their personal records they set in training and others only count the ones they set in races. I am one of those who counts the current personal records I have in races. My current personal records are as follows.

5k - 20:50 (October 2014)

10k - 42:35 (March 2015)

13.1 - 01:33 (December 2014)

26.2 - 03:55 (March 2015)

Now some of these records (such as the 5k) have been broken during my training runs. But as I stated before, I only count the official race times. My first goal is to run another 5k and officially set a new best time. That 5k will be May 9th. I know for sure my next half marathon is going to be in December as I recently got a free entry to one close to me locally. My next 10k will be sometime in November but there may be another sooner if I can find one before then. I would like to find another marathon to run sometime during the summer and focus on bringing my current time down. When I ran my first marathon, I was not as prepared as I could have been, But I do not regret anything at all. I knew the first one was going to be a learning experience for me and I wanted to get it under my belt. As far as my current training is going, I am building back up from the first marathon. My mileage is slowly building back up and my speed is increasing day by day. I wont be focusing too much on placement in these races, the main focus of my current goals is to be better than I was before. I am my own competition and that is the way it should always be. I look forward to what the future holds and can not wait to return to that starting line!