a new PR

Just when I thought I would probably never be able to get back up to speed with my running, I ended up getting a new PR today at the San Jose Rock ‘n’ Roll. Chip Time: 1:54:18. This beats my 2010 Disneyland Half time by ~4 minutes (1:58:02) where I felt I did much better than expected, and beats my old PR of 1:54:20 at the 2007 Santa Cruz Half Marathon.

Tom and I have not been training with much regularity at all — most weeks, I am only able to run twice at most — so even though I felt I could have done better with a little more pushing during the race and I’m somewhat frustrated knowing I could probably be faster with more regular training (even just one more run per week), I’m fairly satisfied. For this particular event, I ran only once between last weekend’s 10K and today’s race. I suppose I really couldn’t ask for better than what I got.

In three short weeks, we’ll see if I can mark “marathon” off my bucket list. I’ll run in the Silicon Valley Marathon, probably slowly (10min/mile average), and I probably won’t feel as good afterwards as I do after a 10K or a half.

In the meantime, today’s stats:

Overall: 1926 out of 10378 · Division: 81 out of 894 · Gender: 446 out of 5831