PB's

Today while I was running I ran a half marathon in 1:53... in 33 degrees, and horribly hungover. It got me thinking about where I was as a runner a year ago. In March 2009 I ran a half marathon race in 2:12, and in May 2009 I did on in 2:02. I run a half marathon feeling like absolute crap in 1:53 today, heck I eve walked for at least 3 km from the heat today. It's amazing how much easier you run when you do it regularly... and I think doing so many hills helps my speedwork, but I don't really do any flat speedwork.

I think I will try and test myself at distances of 1 mile, 5 km, 10 km, 10 mile, half marathon, and full marathon at least once a month. Then I can use it as a barometer of my improvements. Until then I thought I would compile a list of pb's; for both races and training runs. The info for the training runs is skewed to more recent stuff as a month ago my garmin log got wiped clean somehow and I have to go off my runninglog which isn't very accurate sometimes.

Race Personal Bests: (number of races at that distance in parenthesis)

1 mile:
5 km: March 5, 2009 - 27:01 (1)
10 km: April 5, 2009 - 56:43 (2)
10 mile: May 11, 2009 - 1:32:44 (1)
Half marathon: March 28, 2010 - 1:42:30 (9)
Marathon: October 11, 2009 - 3:58:10 (3)
50 km: May 2, 2010 - 4:47:28 (1)
50 mile: June 26, 2010 - 10:05:09 (1)

Training Runs:

1 mile: July 8, 2010 - 7:02
5 km: June 6, 2010 - 22:05
10 km: January 31, 2010 - 48:30
10 mile: July 8, 2010 - 1:25:54
Half marathon: January 31, 2010 - 1:49:30
Marathon: February 21, 2010 - 4:05:02
50 km: May 20, 2010 - 5:40:04
50 mile:

Tomorrow or Saturday I will break a sub 7 minute mile, and will also try and do a sub 1:47 half.