Mid-Winter Cruise Results

Just a quick one with my results from the Mid-Winter Cruise 5K.

22:10:16

9th out of 103 Overall

1st out of 9 AG (60-64)

7:09/mile

President Mark & 1st Race of the New Year

Well, it's official.  I am the President of the Prairie State Road Runners as of last night at our annual banquet.  I do feel it is definitely an honor to be elected, but I am a bit trepidatious about the whole thing.  The club has been doing so well the last couple of years, I just hope I can keep things going.  The one big positive is that I have a great group of people joining me on the Board of Directors.  This will be a big help.

Ran my first race of the new year this morning.  It was the Mid-Winter Cruise 5K in Park Forest.  I ran quite well without really killing myself.  Very pleased.  They had trouble with the printer, so haven't seen the official results, but I am pretty sure I was in the top ten overall.  My watch time was 22:09.9.  I will update with particulars when They are posted.

A Brand New Year

Here it is, the start of a new year.  I meant to write this a few days ago, but hadn't gotten around to it till tonight.  I had such a great year in 2015, and being another year older, can I really expect to improve upon it.  I am still running well, even in these cold days.  And I am still feeling pretty fit and healthy, so I guess we will just have to see.  I plan on continuing with my easy running this year with very little speedwork (mostly just the races themselves) since it worked so well last year.  It kept me injury free, but still allowed me to race well.  I will try to incorporate more hills, though, and some weight work.

I started putting together my race schedule several weeks ago, coming up with a nice mix of shorter PSRR circuit races and my main ultra races.  It is far from complete, mostly the first half of the year, but it is a good start.  I will go into more detail in my next post.