New personal best

I regularly run a 3.43 mile (5.52km) route from my house, it fits my routine. But for a while I've been stuck at just over 26 minutes. 26'09 to be precise. Even allowing for waiting for traffic on one of the 4 road crossings I was still slower than I thought I should be on this run.

Today was good though - 8am Saturday morning. Virtually no traffic so I hardly had to cut my pace to cross the roads at all. I made an effort to get the pace up early and dig in to keep it up if I could. Got home in 24'48. Really pleased. 1'21 off my previous best and even allowing for the lack of traffic that was a big improvement. But it's still over 7minute miles and I think I can do better than that.

If I turned that into a 5km race it would be over a minute slower than my PB. Time to raise my sights a bit

Another personal best

A week or so ago at the club we had a time trial and ran a measured 5k. I came in at 21'11 which is another 10 seconds off my personal best. It was a bit tougher course too, so I'm pleased. Sub 21 minutes is my next goal.

See the route here

Personal Best

I ran in the Telford Town Centre 5k tonight and managed a new personal best. Two months ago I ran in the Park Hall 5k and managed 22'24, tonight I managed to knock a minute off that with 21'21. It was quite quick with a fast downhill section to begin with, this had the inverse effect of making me slow down a bit because I didn't want to run out of steam.

Still, I was pleased with the time because it shows I'm progressing and that's what matters. So lets see if I can keep that progress up.

Quick run on no1 - new pb

Struggled for motivation to get out on the road yesterday, still feeling tired. So I went for run 1 again and improved from 19.50 to 19.11 on the 2.2mile circuit. Felt all right, confident that I can do that quicker but must remember that warming up and stretching are important.

What I need to do now is start establishing a longer run into my schedule - say 8 miles at this stage and stretch that one out bit by bit.

6 months 1 day to go....