Running Resolutions for 2015

Happy New Year to you all ! 

I hope you had a fab Hogmanay.

I'm interrupting the 2014 half marathon review series to post my running resolutions for 2015. To ensure that they are on record !

I only really had two objectives during 2014, which was to complete the half marathon a month challenge, and run an actual marathon for the first time. I managed to achieve both these goals, and I'm obviously delighted about that, however I often felt I could have pushed myself a bit more.

For example, even though I achieved Personal Best (PB) times over three separate distances during 2014, it was more by accident than by design, because I wasn't specifically chasing them.

So, although I intend to continue the half marathon a month challenge with Chris into 2015, and also run another marathon, my main focus will be on targeting what I think are challenging PB times over 5k, 10k, Half Marathon and full Marathon distances.

Below are my current and target PB times for this year....

5k 
Current PB - 00:25:27 (Pollok Parkrun - 29th June 2013)

Target PB -  00:22:59

10k   
Current PB - 00:51:19 (Jimmy Irvine Bella - 8th November 2014)

Target PB -  00:47:59

Half Marathon
Current PB - 01:54:51 (Scottish Half Marathon - 6th September 2014)

Target PB -  01:49:59

Marathon
Current PB - 04:50:11 (Loch Ness Marathon - 28th September 2014)

Target PB -  04:19:59

I've tried to set the target times so that they might just be achievable if I really put the effort in, but absolutely unachievable if I don't. I'll be back here next year to face the music if I've gone for the easy life!

An important success factor will be choosing PB friendly races to peak for, so ....

5k - Don't know yet, but definitely not the hilly Pollok Parkrun !

10k - Don't know yet. On the lookout if you have suggestions.

Half Marathon - I'll go back to the scene of my current PB in East Lothian. Such a fast course, and remember, it was 292.8 metres too long last year !

Marathon - The Edinburgh Marathon is considerably less hilly than the Loch Ness one, so that will help.


50 Parkruns
An additional target I have for 2015 is to increase my current total of 18 Parkruns to 50 by the end of the year. That's 32 Saturday mornings where I need to be out running, so that should also be a good indication of how likely I am to meet my PB objectives!


Hope you're having a good 2015 so far. All the best !

F