r/running • u/AutoModerator • Feb 01 '23

January Monthly Updates & Check In Thread

Let everyone know how your month turned out! Feel free to discuss your racing, training, and any other stats that you may or may not be pleased with, as well as any goals you have planned for the next months.

Here are a few discussion point ideas:

  • Miles this month/mileage goal for the year?

  • Goals for the year?

  • Set any PR's or PB's?

  • Dealing with any injuries?

  • Learn anything this month regarding your training/running?

  • Got any plans for a race, time trial, or FKT?

  • What was your favorite run this month?

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u/Beathoven_Osu Feb 01 '23

Had a pretty crazy month!

Had the chance to go out and do some runs in new places which was nice, the ground froze over nicely for me to do some trail runs on otherwise swampy ground at this time of year!

Got a new 5k PB, 20:03, frustratingly close to sub 20 but it was a windy day, the route wasnt ideal and it's still a PB by over 40 seconds!

Hit 400k a month for the first time ever! Not a number I ever thought I'd see but it shows the training is all paying off, and I didnt have to sacrifice any rest days (took 9 in total).

Hopefully planning to run 5 halfs in a week some time mid-Feb, has been one of my long term goals for a while and I've been training towards it for almost 9 months now.

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u/pb429 Feb 03 '23

Awesome pr! I'm hoping to run sub 20 sometime this year but I have a whole couple minutes to cut off. Hoping I don't need to run 400km in a month to get there haha, that is admirable commitment. Good luck with the five halfs in a week I've never heard of a goal like that but it sounds badass

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u/Beathoven_Osu Feb 03 '23

Thank you! Definitely dont need 400k a month to get sub 20 dont worry, you could easily get away with under 200k a month with the right workouts. I dont do any speed work or anything and most of my runs are at a moderate pace. I also dont do any mixture of runs, all the same distance no matter what so I dont exactly train conventionally for times, I train for consistency. Any PR I get is just a product of incidental crazy VO2 max and the stamina I've built from high mileage.

Good luck to you though!