My only goal was to make it to 2013.
Only another 11 days to find out if I made it.
In April, I ran 50 miles in 7:55 (my official finish time of this 50-mile race is 8:04 because it was 51 miles long. Gotta love the ultrarunning approach to measurement and race names). That was a PR of about 80 minutes and I came in 4th.
In July, I DNFed a 50 miler at mile 14.
YEEP!
Nice running, everyone!
2012 has been a banner year for me! Having started with the C25K program in Spring 2011, 2012 was my first full year of running. A few highlights have been:
I'm excited to continue my journey as a runner and see what 2013 may hold!
Proud Aussie
I ran more than the 2012 miles I'd set out to run, and took 14 mins off my best marathon time.
Good enough.
Goal: BQ or Bust. (Done: BQ -5mins July 2014)
Selecting new goal.........
2012 wasn't the year I had planned or hoped for, but it wasn't bad.
What went right:
1) I've stayed healthy. Maybe a little too cautious pushing myself, but healthy.
2) I'm still running, and running more often and mileage than ever before.
3) I weigh less than I did a year ago.
What didn't go right:
1) Did not PR in 5K. Or do my first10k. I'm confident I could have PRd in 5k if I'd done the late Sept one I had in mind. But I dropped off running almost altogether in Aug and Sept and I skipped it.
2) Came nowhere near my mileage goal. It was 800 (starting at about 10 miles a week in Jan) but due to dropping off running almost entirely when I should have been building from 20 to 30 ... nope, didn't even come close.
3) I lost only 10 of the 35 lbs I wanted to lose.
After my father-in-law died, I dropped off running for a couple weeks ... then we went on a tough backpacking vacation for a week and it wiped me out for most of another week, and by then I was totally out of my 4AM routine ... and before I knew it, it was 10 weeks before getting my act together again. And I'd gained 8 lbs. I'm not going to let that happen again in 2013. No more letting a genuine interruption (they WILL happen) turn into weeks of not running and careless eating.
*double up post.
I ran my first of two marathons, and finally set a new 5k PR after about seven tries dating back to 2011.
Oddly, I did not race a 10k or half marathon this year.
I changed a lot as a runner from 2011, a full metric ton. And as a result of those changes, I am looking forward to 2013 and heretofore, my loose goals are a sub 20:00 5k, a sub-1:40 half marathon, and a 3:30 marathon.
For me, snagging either of those would only be a part of the fun. The real joy is in the training!
Barking Mad To Run
My goal is always a simple one: just keep running and don't let my arthritis and DDD (Degenerative Disk Disease) beat me. As long as I am able to run I feel that I am keeping ahead of my arthritis. Also, I have this totally non-medical based belief that as long as I can keep running, I also will not have a recurrence in my cancer. Of course it doesn't work that way, I'm sure, but that is my superstition, and one reason I had all my shirts made up, to help self-motivate me to keep on getting out there. So far so good!
This year, once again I beat into the ground all the ongoing stuff in my body by tying my number of races done for this year with the number or faces I did last year: 73 races completed for 2012 and in 2011 I did 73 also. That is my personal high. I didn't go very fast, probably didn't even actually race them, lol, but I finished everything I started and had a lot of fun doing them and taking photos and doing race reports with all the photos. Maybe in 2013 I will get to 74 or 75. Maybe not. Either way, I just enjoy getting out there and I take it one week at a time, one run at a time.
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." Theodore Roosevelt
Chief Unicorn Officer
Mile 5:49 - 5K 19:58 - 10K 43:06 - HM 1:36:54
delicate flower
I didn't go very fast, probably didn't even actually race them, lol, but I finished everything I started and had a lot of fun doing them and taking photos and doing race reports with all the photos. Maybe in 2013 I will get to 74 or 75. Maybe not. Either way, I just enjoy getting out there and I take it one week at a time, one run at a time.
I don't think anybody has more fun than you.
<3
The Good: 5 Years Free of Hodgkin's Disease. Finally breaking 1:43 in the Half-Marathon. The Cleveland Marathon. NC24. Seeing SueinTN win the NC24.The Bad: Falling and breaking my hand while marathon training in March. The Ugly: The month of December. Mass behind my eye = 4 surgeries, a nasty case of osteomyelitis, a plate in my head, and my longest break from running in 15 years.
I am most proud of my sub-6:00 mile. I wanted that SO BAD and I trained my motherf***ing ass of for it. I actually cried when I crossed the finish line and I'm not a crier.
That is awesome!
Jenny, get better!
I thought this was last year! I remember!
I hope the infection is leaving your body already! I need to see more running with Bob pics in FB!
Damaris
As part of the 2024 London Marathon, I am fundraising for VICTA, a charity that helps blind and visually impaired children. My mentor while in law school, Jim K (a blind attorney), has been a huge inspiration and an example of courage and perseverance. Please consider donating.
Fundraising Page
What happens when certain achievements are greater than your wildest expectations? I ran my 2nd Peachtree Road Race 10K with my son Matt & better my time by 10 minutes from previous year. Then I ran two more 10Ks and eventually going sub 1:00:00 with a time of 55:28 in the Cartersville 10K. The next day I score my best 5K time at a race at Auburn University with time of 27:06. Then, thanks to encouragement to dream from some fellow runner friends in Illinois, I train and run my first half marathon in late October at the AthHalf in Athens, GA with a time of 2:06:20.
So running was a plus for me this year.
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” - T.S. Eliot