2019 Recap
So I kind of quit this blog in 2018 - and then went on to have a very good year in 2019. Thus I'm starting again. It started with my second professional job change in a span of just over 3 years - back to Cambridge. Getting in good training seemed a little harder - but my foot was beginning to feel better. I ran a spring fest in March - which went ok: 20:52 - 6:44 pace - a good half-minute over the Yulefest from 3 months earlier.
I was feeling real good at that point - but then either got sick or had allergies before the late April James Joyce 10K. I ran it anyway for a 47:04 (7:35). Once again - a good 10k eludes me - 47 years of life in. Nevertheless - one month later I run a 20:18 (6:33) 5k - best of my life by 3 seconds - in May at the first race of the summer series. It was an overcast and cool May day - perfect for running - and I just had a phenomenal race. Unfortunately Coolrunning disappeared - and my GPS looks like i went for a swim in the Charles (good for a sub-6 mile 3). I only have my personal log to record it.
The next race was the Adrian Martinez mile in early June. I finished with the exact same time as the previous years - a little disappointing considering my newly minted 5k-pr. Also dead last in my heat of 40-year olds. Probably the only race I've ever placed last in. The next 3 races were all summer-series 5ks along the Charles: 21:17 in July (i think i took a few weeks off before this one); 20:31 in August and another 20:18 pr-tie in September. Running good
At this point I started training for a half-marathon in October. My next 2 races were the Arlington Townday race - an odd 2.7 miler which i finished in 17:15 (6:23s) and a real hilly hot 10k race in Winchester which i struggled to 44:18 (7:09) - keeping up my 10k futility streak.
I then decided to take a second shot at a half by running one 2 weeks ahead of my scheduled race. So i ended up running the bay state half on cool October morning. Since i had another race coming up - I decided to head out fastish. I ended up running the best half of my life: 1:33:58 - good 7:11 pace. The course is pretty awesome - you do the same loop twice - something which I always find gives me confidence. The only downside is I kinda lost some motivation for my 'real' half which I ran in 1:34:51 - 7:15s. Not bad - but only good for 2nd best ever. I then fell back into mediocrity to wind down the year: 6:54s gobble(3x) 5k; 6:58s (bill Rodgers 3.5) and then a 7:13 effort for the 5Mer 'super Sunday' this last February. Neverthesless - a fantastic year - 5k and half PRs. Time to start up the blog and attack another marathon.
I was feeling real good at that point - but then either got sick or had allergies before the late April James Joyce 10K. I ran it anyway for a 47:04 (7:35). Once again - a good 10k eludes me - 47 years of life in. Nevertheless - one month later I run a 20:18 (6:33) 5k - best of my life by 3 seconds - in May at the first race of the summer series. It was an overcast and cool May day - perfect for running - and I just had a phenomenal race. Unfortunately Coolrunning disappeared - and my GPS looks like i went for a swim in the Charles (good for a sub-6 mile 3). I only have my personal log to record it.
The next race was the Adrian Martinez mile in early June. I finished with the exact same time as the previous years - a little disappointing considering my newly minted 5k-pr. Also dead last in my heat of 40-year olds. Probably the only race I've ever placed last in. The next 3 races were all summer-series 5ks along the Charles: 21:17 in July (i think i took a few weeks off before this one); 20:31 in August and another 20:18 pr-tie in September. Running good
At this point I started training for a half-marathon in October. My next 2 races were the Arlington Townday race - an odd 2.7 miler which i finished in 17:15 (6:23s) and a real hilly hot 10k race in Winchester which i struggled to 44:18 (7:09) - keeping up my 10k futility streak.
I then decided to take a second shot at a half by running one 2 weeks ahead of my scheduled race. So i ended up running the bay state half on cool October morning. Since i had another race coming up - I decided to head out fastish. I ended up running the best half of my life: 1:33:58 - good 7:11 pace. The course is pretty awesome - you do the same loop twice - something which I always find gives me confidence. The only downside is I kinda lost some motivation for my 'real' half which I ran in 1:34:51 - 7:15s. Not bad - but only good for 2nd best ever. I then fell back into mediocrity to wind down the year: 6:54s gobble(3x) 5k; 6:58s (bill Rodgers 3.5) and then a 7:13 effort for the 5Mer 'super Sunday' this last February. Neverthesless - a fantastic year - 5k and half PRs. Time to start up the blog and attack another marathon.
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