Hi. I still have not blogged about my HALF MARATHON!
AH! I did it! 2:01:42.7? Something like that. The 2:01 part is right. I came 2nd for my age and sex. Which was UNEXPECTED!
Amazing.
Anyways. After I ran it, my mom said "So where are you taking this?" in reference to my running. Of course, I didn't know. Would I try to improve my time/pace? Would I try to work towards a marathon?
I really didn't know.
Now I do.
I joined cross country at school! I am hoping to get to COSSA. I need to attend 16 practices (which should hopefully work out).
But the coach said something about a pace of 4:00min/km is what she would like us to be at, but 5:00min/km is best. For senior girls this is a 5km race. The half marathon is 21km. So that is not the issue.
The issue is my pace. My pace running the half marathon was 5:46min/km. Which is actually not a bad pace... for a half marathon. But I need to make my pace faster and run less.
I used to go for 10-15km runs to train, a couple of times a week. Now I need to go for faster and shorter runs to train.
I don't see it being an issue. I tried a 5km run with a faster pace the other day, and my pace was around 4:35min/km. But of course, I definitely want to bring it down. Just a lot of training.
Time and persistence give you results.
Thats all it takes.
Lesssgooo.
AH! I did it! 2:01:42.7? Something like that. The 2:01 part is right. I came 2nd for my age and sex. Which was UNEXPECTED!
Amazing.
Anyways. After I ran it, my mom said "So where are you taking this?" in reference to my running. Of course, I didn't know. Would I try to improve my time/pace? Would I try to work towards a marathon?
I really didn't know.
Now I do.
I joined cross country at school! I am hoping to get to COSSA. I need to attend 16 practices (which should hopefully work out).
But the coach said something about a pace of 4:00min/km is what she would like us to be at, but 5:00min/km is best. For senior girls this is a 5km race. The half marathon is 21km. So that is not the issue.
The issue is my pace. My pace running the half marathon was 5:46min/km. Which is actually not a bad pace... for a half marathon. But I need to make my pace faster and run less.
I used to go for 10-15km runs to train, a couple of times a week. Now I need to go for faster and shorter runs to train.
I don't see it being an issue. I tried a 5km run with a faster pace the other day, and my pace was around 4:35min/km. But of course, I definitely want to bring it down. Just a lot of training.
Time and persistence give you results.
Thats all it takes.
Lesssgooo.
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