I was very inspired by the race reports this past Saturday! Good job everyone!! Another reason I love this blog- the race reports helped to motivate me & get a little more serious about my goals. I really want to break my 5k PR this year for starters. I think it would help me to run alone at least 1x a week. I usually run with friends & we chat the whole time, therefore not really pushing myself in my training runs. Today I went alone and averaged 8:49 on a tough 5 miler (more than 50% was slight uphill). I think I can definately get to 8:35/8:40 average pace on my training runs if I run alone more often. I don't want to be above 9:15 unless its a long run.
I'm thinking about running a 5k in Florida June 7th while I'm down there. This probably wouldn't be the PR 5k because I haven't really been doing any tempo, speed work lately. But ESPECIALLY because I don't know how I'll do in the heat. It will be low to mid 90s and very high humidity most likely. But I love to do races in other places when ever I have the opportunity and this one is at a cool nature park so I think it will keep hubby & kids entertained while I do a quick (hopefully, hee hee) 5k. I'll have a week to run down there before the race so I can decide if my body can handle the heat in a race or not. | 