I know! It’s not Jan 1 yet. But I just couldn’t wait to post my goals for next year. Obviously the biggie is the marathon, but I think after I finish (hopefully!) that I want to work on speed a little bit. I’m pretty confident that I can achieve these goals, but I think they’re challenging enough for me that I will have to work pretty hard on them.
I think the best part of being a fairly “new” runner (began in March 09) is that I can realistically expect to …

Weekly Total: 30 miles

Monday 11/23 (Rest)
Did some yoga and some stretching – more on my new strength goal soon!

Tuesday 11/24 (5 miles Easy)
We did a 5k in our running class today, which was tons of fun. I ran it in about 26 minutes at a pretty comfortable pace, which is great – it beats my May 16th time of 26:22 and I wasn’t even really pushing it! I can’t wait to race another 5k to see how I’ve improved this year.  I threw in a warm up/cool down to hit …