My Year in Endurance Sports 2009

My year in sports:

First, here is my background.

Basically I started out with a general fitness program and really wasn’t prepared going into this year’s McNaughton 50-100-150 mile race. Still I had signed up for the 100 a long time earlier, thinking that I had time to prepare. I didn’t so I started it on Friday with the 150 milers. It was horribly muddy but I managed a long, slow finish.

The other thing of note was a reasonably good marathon walk (5:14) in May and, much to my surprise, a PB in the 5 K swim (during a training swim) of 1:36:24. I did that more or less on a whim.

I did try to run some 5K events over the spring and could not break out of the 24 minute rut.

Running:
800
800 meters: 3:18 August 11(track)

Mile
6:42 July 9 (downhill, road)
7:03 July 22 (track)
7:19 August 5 (track)
6:54 August 25 (track)

5K
24:14 September 5
24:07 August 22
24:09 August 15
24:59 July 18
24:00 May 30
25:40 May 23
24:29 May 9
26:30 April 25 (trail)
24:41 March 28

15K
1:27:23 June 20

Walking:
Marathons
5:14:26 May 17
5:28:32 September 27

Ultras
29.3 miles August 2
30 miles, 8:54 October 31

24 Hour/100 mile
66.4 24 hours (12:43 for 50 miles), June 7
100 miles, 47:45, April 12

Swimming:

1:36:24 PB for 5K (5500 yards), 17 December
27:05 1650 10 December
16:17 1000, 9 November
16:18 1000 23 September

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