My rookie year in review

Tomorrow marks my official one year anniversary of running in an organized environment.

For excercise, I used to play soccer once a week. I would also run a 5k or two a year, in addition to the Annual Thanksgiving Turkey trot, but never really anything too serious.

I remember the first meeting for the Motive Half Marathon Program and how nervous I was about the idea of running that far. It kind of felt like the first day at school, not knowing what to expect. I was lucky in that several of Marla’s colleagues who raced the Vineman Half Ironman in July were in the group, so I knew people. The unlucky part about that, was I was going in as a beginner (maybe intermediate) and they were all 'advanced', so I ended up running long runs with them. This meant running well above my distance abilities or so I thought and definitely felt after them!

The first week was 4miles on Town lake trail, and it quickly went up from there to 5, 7, and even 9 miles by week 4!! I kept thinking I was going to die after every Saturday run. My prior record was a Cap10K (6.2Miles) a few years ago, that I struggled through, and now I was breaking my PR (Personal Record) every week because I was running with these seasoned athletes.

I’m proud of my accomplishments, especially as I really hated running before all this, and now I can’t wait for another year, when I can add a marathon to the list!

2 Mile Time Trials:

TIME TRIAL_____DATE_____TIME____PACE
2 Mile Time Trial-----Sept. 2006-----15min 24-----7:42/M
2 Mile Time Trial-----Jan. 2006------13min 25-----6:43/M
2 Mile Time Trial-----8/29/2006-----13min 01-----6:31/M
*Sep 2007 Goal - Under 12 mins

Half Marathons:

RACE_____DATE_____TIME____PACE
Motive 2005-----11/20/05------1:54:38----8:45/M
3M 2006---------01/29/06------1:41:44----7:46/M
Freescale 2006--02/19/06-----1:37:24----7:26/M
*Sep 2007 Goal - Under 1hr 35min

10K Races:

RACE___________DATE_____TIME__PACE
Go For The Gold 10K------3/11/06-----46:16-----7:27/M
RoundUp 10K---------------4/29/06----44:47-----7:13/M
*Sep 2007 Goal - Under 44min

5K Races:

RACE_____DATE_____TIME__PACE
BagelFest 5K------3/14/04-----25:02-----7:46/M
BunRun 5K--------4/23/06-----20:34-----6:35/M
Arc Daisy 5K------5/14/06-----20:14------6:29/M ** 1st Place Age Group!!! **
*Sep 2007 Goal - Under 20 mins

1 Mile Race:

RACE_____________DATE_____TIME_____PACE
Congress Ave Mile------5/20/06-----05:32-----5:32/M
*Sep 2007 Goal - 5:10 mins



**Thank you Marla for getting me into this mess!**