2014 Goals!

January 25th, 2014

Well I can finally run again and it's been great, despite feeling like I am starting all over again at altitude!  I ran my longest run yesterday since CIM, which was only 10 miles, but a good start, especially since I averaged 6:57 pace.  I feel confident that once I get my legs used to the miles again and start speed work I will be ready to rock out this spring!  So what are the plans?  I am going to race Running of the Green (4 miler) on March 15th.  The following weekend I am running the Syracuse Half Marathon.  I do not anticipate this to be my fastest half marathon, but hopefully a decent run for this early in the season.  The first weekend in April I will run Delmar Dash with the goal of running ~30 seconds faster than last year.  May 17th, is my goal race, Brooklyn Half Marathon, with the hope to run sub 80 minutes.  From there I will take a month relatively relaxed before starting another training cycle in preparation for Chicago Marathon.  We will see how it goes!  I am moving back to NY next weekend, which means I will loose any altitude advantage I gained.  I hope being at sea level will help me run my workouts at a faster pace!  I had my iron levels check last month and they looked great, which is very encouraging.  Maybe I have found my solution to iron deficiency and iron transfusions... Hema Plex!

Happy Running