I started logging when I started using this baby:
Oh dear God.
Please tell me you still have that thing?
Oh, I said I would never run a 5k if I couldn't come under 30 minutes. I also said there was no point because I could just go run 3 miles on my own.
Exactly.
My mistake was lining up in the very back of the crowd, what horrible fucking advice that was/is. That was the first and last time I ever did that dumb shit.
It does not feel like August today, that is a good thing. I planned on doing 1-ish easy, 2 at HM pace, 1 easy, 2 at 10k pace and whatever it took at easy pace to get back home. Would up being 9 miles total. I started the first part that was supposed to be HM pace. I looked down at my watch after the first 1/4 mile and was faster than 5k pace, oops. Dialed it back, thought it felt like HM pace. Nope. So both sets wound up being at 10k pace.
I should add I have no clue what 10k pace is for me right now. Based on my 5k times, I get right about 9mm, which is what I did tonight. However, that's' based on some really uneven & ugly paced 5ks with at least 1 mile that winds up slower than that, so not sure that's the best gauge.
I have no clue when I started running. Does the President's Physical Fitness test in middle school count? I dreaded than mile run. Probably the next time I ran any distance was my junior year in high school when I played soccer. Freshman year in college I took jogging as my mandatory PE credit. I started running 3 times per week in 2005, although I was a fair weather runner and did other things once the time changed & it got cold. I did my first 5k in 2010.
Oh dear God. Please tell me you still have that thing?
Not sure. It was a hand me down from my bf. I eventually bought myself a 405.
I have a couple of pagers from the early 90's stored away along with some cell phones that look like they belong in a Dick Tracy movie. lol
I dreaded than mile run.
Isn't it weird how far that seemed back then? Now we run them like they run credits in a movie. lol
My easy pace is faster than my "all out" mile time in middle school. So in that aspect, I can say I am in better shape than when I was in middle school. However, I sandbagged the rest of the physical fitness test, as a gymnast, the strength & flexibility stuff was a cakewalk, I would see how many pull ups got me into the top percentile & do that many. Pretty sure I cannot do one now.
I didn't start my log here until I joined this forum about two years after I started running. When I did C25k I was on Cool Running and then Runners World until the spam invasions and just kept loose track on a sheet of paper - no times, no specifics, just 3 runs a week of 3 -4 miles.
I transferred my RWOL log to here so it is accurate as of 2011. Except I started running in 1999.
Damaris
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I went back and manually uploaded everything except for the first couple of months with C25K.
I managed to run 4.2 just a few hours after the blood draw without dying.
Hey, you are proof that those Runner's World emails of training for a marathon on three days a week is possible.
I will be happy to share the story of my first marathon, that will scare them straight.
Dave
If the story doesnt, that finish line pic surely will. lol
#bestpicever
If the story doesnt, that finish line pic surely will. lol #bestpicever
Ha. I forgot about that.
I just finished my 15 miler. It's 11:30 pm here, ffs.
PRs: Boston Marathon, 3:27, April 15th 2013
Cornwall Half-Marathon, 1:35, April 27th 2013
18 marathons, 18 BQs since 2010