Hi all,
Welcome here at my running blog! While I am mostly focus on marathons I do have some fun side quests to aim for on shorter distances. Both because it will overall help me get faster , plus it is something that I am not that good at right now.
With my next marathon scheduled for the end of November, I now have some time to work on improving my shorter distance times:
5km first goal => sub 20 min.
today’s attempt: 20:16 (previous best 20:36) almost there!
10km first goal => sub 40 min
current best attempt: 43:21 still quite some work to do!
half marathon, first goal => sub 90 min
current best attempt: 92:27 almost there!
Today I did my first attempt on breaking 20 min for 5 km. Normally I just start running and decide after a bit to go for a faster time. This time I did a proper warm up and started with the 5km in my mind.
While starting, I noticed fatigue / heavy legs and felt a bit weak. I decided to just give it a go and don’t look at my watch for the pace (mistake!)
My aim was to take a short sprint for the last 300m but I miscalculated the distance (should had just looked at my watch 😝) but still came pretty close to my goal! Furthermore it was fun and am already looking forward to the next attempt!
After the run, I did a short 2km cooldown. Bringing todays total at 8 km.
Happy running!
