Fiftieth parkrun
Dec. 31st, 2016 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylSuccessfully completed this morning's run in a reasonable time, joining the Parkrun 50 club in the process. Since I started in late October 2015, that means I've only missed around ten runs in that period.
I missed a couple when I was away in spring and more when I was in Greece in fall. I missed one when I had a nasty bout of flu back in February — and I clearly wasn't fully recovered when I started back again, recording my second worst time every and my worst time for an event where I actually showed up in time for the start! I also missed a couple of months in spring when I had an ITB problem in my left knee that refused to respond to anything other than rest, but some of that overlapped with when I was away, so I wouldn't have been around to run anyway.
And the trends have also been positive over the last year. Ignoring the outlier that was this year's Christmas Day run, which I went into in a state of near-exhaustion, every run I've done in the last six months has been under 21 minutes with a general trend downwards in recent months. I managed to put in a couple of solid sub-20 minute runs in the summer, finishing tenth out of 245 — a real achievement!
I missed a couple when I was away in spring and more when I was in Greece in fall. I missed one when I had a nasty bout of flu back in February — and I clearly wasn't fully recovered when I started back again, recording my second worst time every and my worst time for an event where I actually showed up in time for the start! I also missed a couple of months in spring when I had an ITB problem in my left knee that refused to respond to anything other than rest, but some of that overlapped with when I was away, so I wouldn't have been around to run anyway.
And the trends have also been positive over the last year. Ignoring the outlier that was this year's Christmas Day run, which I went into in a state of near-exhaustion, every run I've done in the last six months has been under 21 minutes with a general trend downwards in recent months. I managed to put in a couple of solid sub-20 minute runs in the summer, finishing tenth out of 245 — a real achievement!
