Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Selling Myself Short
I heard having a Garmin might change my training. Well, apparently I have been selling myself short (at least to myself). A year ago I had a hard time running a 12:00/mile. Through training for my October half-marathon my times naturally got faster and I was happy when I was running 10:30/mile. Well, on my outdoor runs (all two of them since getting my Garmin) all my times have been under 10:00/mile. My best, and most relaxed, mile came during a 5 mile run at 9:10/mile. WOW, big difference. Here I thought I was running almost 90 seconds/mile slower. There is no reason why I can’t break 30 minutes when I run a 5K race again.
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That is AWESOME! I would be lost without my Garmin I love to plug in and see what I have accomplished. Sub 30 minutes here you come!!
Hugs!
That is awesome! On the downside, I started training with a Garmin from the beginning and it's frustrating to see how slow I am. I'm working on building in some distance so I can't worry about speed, but I'm thrilled if I can maintain 10:30 for 3 miles. It's usually slower than that, and sometimes I think it would be better not to know...but I HAVE to know ;0
Way to go!
It's great when you find that perfect pace.
A pace 90 seconds faster ya thought would be better than any Christmas present!!
How fun to find out you're running faster than you thought you were! Yes, a sub 30, you can do!
Great job! It sure does seem like you can break 30 mins at the 5K.
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