Hello and welcome to my very first post. I won’t go on about me, but if you’d like to know more about me swing yourself over to the ‘Who am I?‘ page.
Start of the year
Coming into 2019 I knew I had one main goal, Berlin Marathon, September 2019. For me this is my biggest challenge I’ve had in running. Knowing I wouldn’t be running a Spring marathon with all my running friends, and having to train mainly alone through the hot summer was daunting. To overcome this I set myself two early targets, running more miles than I ever had before and focusing on 10k races before my 16 weeks of marathon training started. Running more miles than I ever had done before meant I trained with a lot of the Spring marathon runners from the club, this was great to build a base for myself and see them do so well!
Focusing on 10k races is something I’ve never really done, it’s just happened. Since the start of the year I’ve:
- Taken nearly a minute off my 5k time
- Had numerous good results in other shorter races
- Ran better each fortnight of a 4500m race for 3 events
This Sunday (19th May) is the Bognor 10k, I’m hoping for a PB (sub 38:31) but ideally a low 38 would do me, but we’ll see! I’ve trained really hard, not just lots of running and speed work, but adding strength and conditioning training to my plan, as well as focusing more on what I’m eating. This has made me feel stronger, better after a run and fitter generally.
See you all in the next one,
Happy running!
Jack Penfold 