I’m sure there must be a better collective noun for a group of milestones, but ‘myriad’ will suffice for now.
Milestone 1: A record mile
(rant)I generally never think of my running in terms of miles or minutes per mile. I live in the modern world and in an enlightened country that has adopted the metric system. We no longer have the need to measure distance in archaic terms of 1000 thous to the inch, 12 inches in a foot, three foot in a yard, two yards in a fathom, 11 fathoms in a chain, 10 chains in a furlong, eight furlongs in a mile and three miles in a league. It’s simple... 10 millimetres to a centimetre, 100 centimetres to a metre, 1000 metres to a kilometre. That’s it. Why do Britain and the USA persist with wanting to party like it's 1699? (/rant)
However, my track workout this week called on me to run three lots of 1600 metres with a 400m rest interval. 1600 metres is almost exactly one mile. I’ve never measured my speed over a mile before, and the first of the three sets I ran in 6 min 55 secs. I now have a personal record for the mile!
Milestone 2: A quarter way through my marathon training
Last Saturday’s long run brought to completion week four of my 16-week Furman FIRST marathon training program. I’m amazed at how quickly those four weeks seemed to have passed and have been very pleased with the progress I have made in that time. I just have to remain focussed, committed and uninjured for the next 12 week.
Milestone 3: A record month
The month of June saw me achieve my highest ever total for kilometres run in a month, a total of 194km, 30km more than my previous monthly record set in April of this year.
Milestone 4: A record week
Week 26 was also my highest weekly total for kilometres run with a total distance of 52km for the period 25 June - 01 July.
Milestone 5: A record long run
Last Saturday was a new distance PR with my first 32km/20mile run. This was the first of five 20-milers I will do in the lead up to the Sydney Marathon in September.
Milestone 6: Over halfway to achieving my yearly distance goal.
For each of the last four years I have set myself the target of running 1000km over the twelve months. Each year, I failed to achieve that goal. Once again at the start of this year I set myself that goal. By March-April when it became clear that I was going to easily reach that goal well before the end of the year, I revised my goal upwards to 1000 miles or 1600km. By June 30 to achieve that goal I needed to have run 800km. By June 30, I had actually run 889km.
The training week:
The long run - 26 June
The plan: 32km with a target pace of 6:00min/km
The avg speed: 6:09min/km
The swim - 28 June
600m freestyle
The track workout - 29 June The plan: 3 x 1600m (1 min rest intervals) at a target pace 0f 7:15min/1600m
The splits: 6:55, 7:11, 7:11.
The 'organic' cross training workout - 30 June
Shifting two tonnes of firewood by hand!
The tempo workout - 1 July
The plan: 3km Easy (5:49min/km); 5km Short Tempo (4:50min/km); 2km Easy (5:49min/km).
The splits: 5:37, 5:17, 5:44, 4:41, 4:33, 4:48, 4:43, 4:48, 5:39, 4:48.
I’m sure there must be a better collective noun for a group of milestones, but ‘myriad’ will suffice for now.
Milestone 1: A record mile
(rant)I generally never think of my running in terms of miles or minutes per mile. I live in the modern world and in an enlightened country that has adopted the metric system. We no longer have the need to measure distance in archaic terms of 1000 thous to the inch, 12 inches in a foot, three foot in a yard, two yards in a fathom, 11 fathoms in a chain, 10 chains in a furlong, eight furlongs in a mile and three miles in a league. It’s simple... 10 millimetres to a centimetre, 100 centimetres to a metre, 1000 metres to a kilometre. That’s it. Why do Britain and the USA persist with wanting to party like it's 1699? (/rant)
However, my track workout this week called on me to run three lots of 1600 metres with a 400m rest interval. 1600 metres is almost exactly one mile. I’ve never measured my speed over a mile before, and the first of the three sets I ran in 6 min 55 secs. I now have a personal record for the mile!
Milestone 2: A quarter way through my marathon training
Last Saturday’s long run brought to completion week four of my 16-week Furman FIRST marathon training program. I’m amazed at how quickly those four weeks seemed to have passed and have been very pleased with the progress I have made in that time. I just have to remain focussed, committed and uninjured for the next 12 week.
Milestone 3: A record month
The month of June saw me achieve my highest ever total for kilometres run in a month, a total of 194km, 30km more than my previous monthly record set in April of this year.
Milestone 4: A record week
Week 26 was also my highest weekly total for kilometres run with a total distance of 52km for the period 25 June - 01 July.
Milestone 5: A record long run
Last Saturday was a new distance PR with my first 32km/20mile run. This was the first of five 20-milers I will do in the lead up to the Sydney Marathon in September.
Milestone 6: Over halfway to achieving my yearly distance goal.
For each of the last four years I have set myself the target of running 1000km over the twelve months. Each year, I failed to achieve that goal. Once again at the start of this year I set myself that goal. By March-April when it became clear that I was going to easily reach that goal well before the end of the year, I revised my goal upwards to 1000 miles or 1600km. By June 30 to achieve that goal I needed to have run 800km. By June 30, I had actually run 889km.
The training week:
The long run - 26 June
The plan: 32km with a target pace of 6:00min/km
The avg speed: 6:09min/km
The swim - 28 June
600m freestyle
The track workout - 29 June The plan: 3 x 1600m (1 min rest intervals) at a target pace 0f 7:15min/1600m
The splits: 6:55, 7:11, 7:11.
The 'organic' cross training workout - 30 June
Shifting two tonnes of firewood by hand!
The tempo workout - 1 July
The plan: 3km Easy (5:49min/km); 5km Short Tempo (4:50min/km); 2km Easy (5:49min/km).
The splits: 5:37, 5:17, 5:44, 4:41, 4:33, 4:48, 4:43, 4:48, 5:39, 4:48.