did two races over the weekend Friday 5km on an undulating course 25:15 Best time in 3 years and 25 seconds quicker than last month Sunday 5 miles flat and fast course 40:45 Quickest time in 4 years and 2nd fastest time ever. My quickest time was almost 20 years ago!!!!!! Summary 5km was at 8:07 pace, 5 miler at 8:09 pace. Granted i did start 5 miler at 5km pace to see what happened, test myself i did slow in 4th mile But a few peeps said i looked strong at the finish I am sure it is related to running everday. Next race is a half marathon on Sunday, but will be training through 5kms are my focus now. But it will be interesting to see what happens though i have only run one 13 miler since mid April when i did my marathon It would be interesting to see what changes others have experienced?

I did notice a change. I started at the beginningo f the year and then in March I dropped my 5K time by 44 seconds (21:00 to 20:16). Unfortunately something is quirky with me right now as I cant seem to find my stride when racing and my times are starting to slip. I notice that some of my easy runs that I do by myself (as opposed to with my running group where teh slower runners tend to set the pace) have been sub - 8:00s so maybe that is good, or maybe bad as I should be running my easy runs slower. I still find that running in general is easier now and the 16 miler I did last week felt pretty good even though I havent run that far in a long long time.

The only real change I've noticed is, before joining this group I used to wrestle with the decision should I run today or should I rest. Now it's Definitely I'm running, the sometimes difficult part is when. So far it's meant starting as early as 6am and as late as 11:00 pm. Almost missed it that 11:00pm day. I'm so focused on this I just may start carrying a gym bag in the car and no matter where I am if it's getting late....excuse me for a few minutes

Half marathon run today Did not know what to expect, as though i have been running everyday for the past 7 weeks i've not run that far really plus others said it was warm today, although i didn't consider it to be that hot. Maybe another factor how running everyday conditions you I was conscious of not starting too fast but thats what i did but ended up finishing in 1:53:46. so mainerunner you were right. Eerily enough i just checked my time on Jack Daniels vdot tables an absolute favourite of mine, and judging on my 5 miler last week he predicts a time for the half of 1:53:46 How cool is that?

Congratulations - the Jack Daniels prediction is bizarre. The heat you had arrived in Maine today - wow.

I use Jack Daniel's VDOT tables all the time too, and find them very accurate, but right on the second, Awsome! Congrats on hitting your goal! D

MaineRunner Congrats on your 5 miler brilliant time.