Garmin Scales

Grumpy_chap

Well, the excesses of Christmas have seen me add some extra pounds (sadly not in the bank) and record my slowest ever Parkrun.

I realised, though, that I have got my Parkrun under the next minute threshold each year that I have been doing Parkrun so that sets an aim to get under another minute threshold this year.  It means 46 seconds to be trimmed which is quite a lot of a minute to improve by.  I hope that age does not defeat me.

For the coming month, if I can consolidate back to a normal time I guess that will be a stabilising launch for the year and my next Half in March.

Grumpy_chap

This has been a challenging month to start the year, especially with the weather making some runs really rather miserable events.

I have stuck with the Garmin Coach Plan for the half that I am doing at the beginning of March and my 5k times have turned the corner and started to get back towards where they were at the peak last year (though still 2 minutes away). Hopefully, if I have faith and stick with the plan I will manage to get that PB for the half in March. If I do not, I have booked onto another half in May.

If I do get the PB in the half, I might focus on faster 5k times.

I am also tempted to try a HYROX, which I'd aim for a target of 90 minutes.