Had gone into the 8 mile race unsure of what my goal should be. Should I take it easy? Should I try to PR? Should I just work on running a little bit faster to keep up with goals of speed training? I wasn't really sure. I decided as I have lately, that it would be up to how I felt.
That morning I felt ok. When I got there I decided I'd try to go faster than usual. Resulted in a good pace for the 8 miles, about 9:37/mile according to official results. My goal is to run 13.1 eventually in less than 2 hours. That would mean getting more like a 9:06/mile or better. This is going to be a challenging bar to set.
I have a few chances to attempt to get this goal this year. 2 times in April and then later in the year in October I hope to do half marathons. Once in the months of May-September it gets harder to do that due to the temperatures being so much higher and not conducive to fast running.
Next race I'm doing is a 5k in February. It's going to be an interesting thing to see if the weather cooperates. I'd like to try to break the 5k time I set over a year ago. I hope one day to get closer to 25 minutes. I think that's doable if the conditions are right.
I continue to try averaging about 20 miles a week right now. I've starting working speed training and 800s in my schedule. I may need to focus more on tempo runs as well.
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