Have you set your running goals for 2011? Along with the soon-to-be-forgotten New Year resolutions, a couple of years ago I added the setting of running targets to my out-with-old-in-with-the-new routine. Although these targets have been quite specific, they all more or less boil down to the same thing; run faster over a range of distances. Last year for no apparent reason I adopted a new target in about May to try and be “Racer of the Year” for my club. This is an award at the end of the year for the idiot who has run most often in the year. Unfortunately, Dave was also keen to win the award so I nearly killed myself running any race that I could get to in the autumn. There’ll be none of that nonsense this year. The only specific target I have is to run the London Marathon as quickly as I am able.
I think I “spread myself too thinly” last year and certainly didn’t give myself time to recover from the April marathon. Why is it that we meticulously plan for every minute of every day for the sixteen weeks leading up to the marathon and then don’t have a plan for a single day post-marathon? I’m going to bimble round at club training, be a 25 minute plus pacemaker at parkrun and enter not a single race in May this year.
There’s a fab 10k race in June “The Two Castles” that I can look forward to as my comeback race. As I’ll be running it with Liz’s brother-in-law it will be preceded by the consumption of copious amounts of vin rouge and a huge meal. It’s not a PB course in any case so time will be immaterial.
In my build up to London I’ll be running at a variety of races from 5k through to 20 miles. If I’m in good nick and the training is going well then who knows, I may run a PB or two. If not, c’est la vie.
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