March 28, 2005
Introduction
Since this is my first entry, I'll tell you a little background information about myself. I am 27, married and live in Michigan. I work with junior high youth and coach high school cross country and track. I ran for a good division 3 program, graduating in 2000. Since than I have a had quite a few injury problems, including knee surgery. A year ago in February, I recovered from my most recent major injury problem and was able to start training hard again. I finally got back into racing shape this past fall, and actually broke my college 5k PR running 17:55 in October. I made it through this past winter without any major injuries, although I am coming off a 6 week down time in training (February and early March)due to minor injury flare ups and a lot of traveling during that time. I am feeling a lot better after my break and am just getting back to serious training and excited to see what I can do in races this summer. I have races planned from 5ks to 10 miles this year. Since all my injury troubles, I have been limiting my actual running miles to about 50-55 miles per week, and adding intensity and cross training to my weeks, rather than more miles. This has seemed to work well for me, since I have been injury free for over a year! I am really excited to join your group. There are so few serious runners near where I live to train or talk running with and I am interested to see what kind of times I can run now that I am finally starting off a year uninjured and serious about my training. I will write more later with my running for the day.
Posted by Ann at March 28, 2005 9:43 AM
Comments
welcome, ann!
i probably won't be much help in the training arena, seeing as how you're running much faster than i can...but i'm good at encouragement!
so, congrats on a smokin' 5k time!
Posted by: jeff at March 29, 2005 2:10 PM