I am just back from my first run in weeks. It is the first time for ages that ice and snow, or various commitments, have let me go out to run. It was very cold and dark and my lack of running was extremely obvious, but it was good to be out there.
I realised that slow and short as it was, this was the first run of 2011, so I thought I would do a summary of my running in 2010. Not great but at least I did it.
47 runs in total, amounting to 21 hours and 12 minutes and covering 171.5km at an average pace of 7.5 mins per km. At less than one run of about 3.5km per week this is not as much as I hoped, but only 1km less than my 2009 total (though my average pace for that year was 7:17 per km). There was no running at all in March and December, and very little in February and November so the average hides a lack of consistency with May, August and October around 30km per month or 1km per day.
Running targets for 2011 (realistic)
- average at least 1km per day so the annual total is more than 365km (more than double what I have done in the last two years.
- run at least twice every week for a total of more than 104 runs
- Achieve an average pace of less than 7:15 mins per km.
- Post new PBs for 5km and 10km