To cap off a great year for running, I set another personal best over 5 km. My 5 km time is now 22:03, a full minute faster than my previous best.
This comes on the back of setting a personal best in the half marathon, followed by smashing the 4-hour barrier in the marathon by 9 minutes. Initially I had some doubts that I would run faster over the 5 km distance as I'm not as strong in shorter distance running.
But I managed to run faster this time, and it must be attributed to the marathon training I've done over the last three months. I felt absolutely knackered afterwards as I was gasping heavily for oxygen, even more so after running a marathon.
22 minutes is a reasonable time, 4 minutes 24 seconds per km. But there is still room for improvement. I really want to break the 20 minute barrier! Now that would be really something. Imagine what times I could achieve in the half marathon and marathon if I could run as fast as that!
This year has been a good one for running. I've achieved all my running goals for this year, with three personal bests in three types of distances, and I feel the best is yet to come. Hopefully next year I can continue the good form, keep up the training, and watch those times come down.
