I'm biting the bullet and setting up my own training log. I'm following the guidance of the graduate thread and with the introduction of different types of training I'd like to keep a track of it all.
Background
Me - female, 29. Started running regularly in 2011/2012 purely for personal reasons after a bereavement with no structure or worry about goals or times. After a while it had become part of my routine and I really enjoyed it. Did the FMM in 2012 and loved it - started following a proper plan then and built up over the summer to my first half marathon in September. Kept it up for the next couple of years and followed the 2014 novice thread for the marathon this year.
By the standards of most I'm definitely on the slower end of the scale. I've good discipline for following a plan, building up distance etc but never had any proper structure to try and work on my times. Would try to improve my time from each race but on a very informal basis, so much of the different training seemed quite daunting. I've learned a good bit over the last few months from following the novice thread, reading logs and different books etc so I'm hoping to change that.
5m -
47.54 (Terenure May 2014)
10k -
57.26 (Fingal 10k July 2013)
10m -
1.38.11 (Frank Duffy, August 2013)
Half marathon -
2.13.14 (Dublin race series, September 2014)
Marathon -
5.11.01 (DCM 2014)
What next?
Short term I'm doing the Jingle Bells 5k to keep the legs ticking over and then the Raheny 5m. In the long term I'm looking at the half marathon in September as a target race. Obviously a long way away but hopefully if the year goes well that will show a good/decent improvement! Will set more specific time goals/target races as the graduate training progresses.
Ok, here it goes...........
