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Ell ([personal profile] ell) wrote in [community profile] runners2011-12-05 07:34 pm
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Hi Runners,

It's been a while since we had a Weekly Monthly Update...

Hope all is going well with you. I've managed to not post 2 race reports in the last month and I'm gearing up for the Silvesterlauf (New Year's Eve Run) here and then no races until March. How is the training going? How was/is your season? Any good tips for surviving the cold and dark winter here in the northern hemisphere?

(In case anyone's still interested, I managed to finish the Frankfurt Marathon in 4:16 after hitting the wall hard around km 34. Until then, I was exactly on track for my goal of 4:10. This was still an improvement of 12 minutes over my first marathon, but I was feeling so good in the first 27 km, that the utter misery of those last 8 really took me by surprise.)
ilanarama: me in Escalante (yatta!)

[personal profile] ilanarama 2011-12-05 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on the big PR, [personal profile] ell!

My training is going well for my goal race, the Houston Marathon in mid-January. I'm running a lot and feeling good. My big news, though, is that I ran a 10K on Saturday and not only did I PR with a time of 43:06 (which I still have a hard time believing!) but I came in 3rd overall among the women, and won my age group. Very happy about this! Race report to be posted soon in my journal.

My other news is that I am "streaking" - I didn't exactly plan it, but I just started running every day back in early November, and I am now up to 23 days in a row!