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Failure is an option
I'm in. I did break 19 once this year (18:55) but want to see if I can do it consistently in 2013 and get under 18:30. Look forward to learning from the group and thanks for adding me. I'll start and share a log here too.
Phil
Ok, I'm in too. I haven't been racing recently but next year all of that is going to change.
Here is my next big running goal. Interim running goals - sub 19:00 5K, sub 40:00 10K. Pie in the sky running goal - sub 5:00 mile (yeah right!! if I lose 20 lbs and 20 yrs in a time machine maybe...)
Interval Junkie --Nobby
Sign me up. First attempt will be Dec 15th 2012.
2013 Goals: 18:49 5K • 1:25 HM • sub-3 Marathon • run lots of races
Current Status 5/13: challenging my Achilles issue -- building some base
Strict WTF adherent
NACN! Good to see a familiar face here.
There a race here in NJ in May that I'm looking at as an initial goal 5k. I placed second OA there last year and have a score to settle. But they haven't posted a date yet.
If you go in relaxed, you will get it on the first shot.
Good luck, everyone!
If you go in relaxed, you will get it on the first shot. Good luck, everyone!
No kidding. With your training and marathon fitness, stadjak, it's in the bag if you don't go out like a lunatic.
Then you just have to get it done again in 2013. Rules of the thread.
"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem." Emil Zatopek
Hey McBen! Good to see you here as well post RWOL.
I'll be testing my 5K fitness on 12/15. Don't expect to go sub 19 then, but I'd like to get as close as possible. Then the real work will start come January.
Modern Era PRs (2012 and later): 5K--19:05 (December 2012), 10K--40:10 (January 2013), HM--1:27:17(July 2012), MAR--3:06:01 (September 2012), "Road" 50K--4:03:42 (March 2012)
Damn, well there goes that plan.
It's been my problem in almost every 5K I've ever done. I'm trying to learn to respect the distance the way I do in longer races, but my Idiot Modetm turns on at every 5K start line.
In. Planned to do this in 2012 but ended up doing longer stuff instead. 19:28 as the startpoint.
Do what you want, just how you like. Nobody has to know.
Old School
Tossing my hat in this ring too. I've been under 19:00 three times in the past year or so, and PR'ed last April with 18:22, but I've lost a lot of ground since then, after taking 4 months off from running due to foot and ankle problems. Solved those with orthotics and Sole inserts, and just getting going again since October. I couldn't break 20 today if I had to, but I'm headed back in the right direction. I'll turn 58 in March, so hoping to do it after that just for the extra age-graded ego-boost...
Oh, and I'm Cecil, also another RW refugee. I'm mostly a lurker and not much a chatter.
I'll turn 58 in March, so hoping to do it after that just for the extra age-graded ego-boost...
As a side bet, so to speak, we should have an age-graded league for 5k times....
Ok, I may be a bit too far out to get there in 2013, but I have always been up for a challenge. 47 year old male, started running in april of this year, previously having run cross country in high school about 30 years ago. Anyways last race I just ran a 21:27 at a Thanksgiving 5k, so probably sub 20 for next year would be a worthy goal, but as they say, "If you are gonna go, may as well go big!"
Anyways, put me in, I'll give it a go.
Agreed. I'd suggest you get to claim the maximum age you'll be this year -- so B-days don't foul up the list. Put me down for 40yo.
Also would be nice if we keep track of people who have never been under 19 before. Count me as one of those.
Agreed. I'd suggest you get to claim the maximum age you'll be this year -- so B-days don't foul up the list. Put me down for 40yo. Also would be nice if we keep track of people who have never been under 19 before. Count me as one of those.
I will be 48 in 2013, and have never been sub-19.
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