Setting some running goals

I'm not feeling well today — I'm stressed out at work and haven't been sleeping — so instead of risking making my scratchy throat and stuffy nose worse I laid in bed or watched TV all day. It wasn't terrible.

Last night, I tried to do a "speed" run of faster-than-usual running intervals and managed to run relatively fast for three of the four intervals, and my Garmin reported that I had run my fastest 5K since I got my new Garmin, at 27:21. So, now I have a goal: Sub-27. (My PR is 25:04 at the end of a sprint triathlon, many moons ago.)

My fastest since my new Garmin, and now I have a goal.

Later today, I took some time to print out pages of my training log (I like to have a hard copy) and look over some numbers. I decided that running a half marathon in the spring would be a decent goal. I've never raced an open half marathon, but my fastest known half marathon split is the second half of the 2012 Indianapolis Monumental Marathon in 2:04:30. And, now I have another goal: Sub 2.

Every day I get to run without knee pain is a good day, and I'm not assuming that I'll continue to progress without any issue. But if I keep adding time slowly and taking it easy on my off days, I don't think these goals are out of reach.