1300KM Run in 2022
Last year I set a goal of running 1000km in 2021. As I set out on the 1st of January 2022, I honestly wasn’t sure of my overall goal for the year. All I knew was that I was going to run farther than I did in 2021. Looking back in my notebook I see some rough figures of needing to run x amount per week, month, etc. to achieve a certain overall distance. It’s safe to say I started the year by going with the flow.
I recently came across this quote by Nike Run Coach, Chris Bennett, “Adjust your goals: without awareness we limit ourselves”. This really hits home and sums up this year of running. After the first couple months of the year, it was clear that part of my goal was to run a minimum of 100km a month. Thus, I picked 1300km (800 mi) as my goal for the year, and as of today, the 21st of December, I achieved that goal! The equivalent of running from Brisbane to Townsville or New York to Savannah, Georgia.
I also continued my streak of running every week, which I’m now at 148 weeks in a row. This was perhaps one of the most challenging parts of this year for two reasons. One, during the first week of July, I took a pretty major fall while running. Both of my knees and one of my hands lost more skin than one would like… It’d be an understatement to say getting back out there after 4 days of “rest” wasn’t a mental and physical challenge. Then two, we spent three weeks in Italy, bouncing between six different places, walking over 300,000 steps and doing a couple very steep hikes. I still kept my commitment and ran once a week (in Genoa, Florence & Rome).
Once again, I ran in some pretty epic places: Fire Island NY, Newport RI, Upstate NY, at home in Australia (Mooloolaba, Rainbow Bay, & Cornubia Forest (even a few wallaby sightings)), Lake George NY, and Italy!
Some stats for the year… I knocked 26 seconds off my average pace from last year, averaging 5’11’’ for 2022. I once again set new PB’s in every distance I ran. I ran 10km+ 28 times, with a new 10km PB of 49:18 in October. I went on 233 runs in 355 days.
Thank you to everyone (especially my husband) that continues to cheer me on!
I recently came across this quote by Nike Run Coach, Chris Bennett, “Adjust your goals: without awareness we limit ourselves”. This really hits home and sums up this year of running. After the first couple months of the year, it was clear that part of my goal was to run a minimum of 100km a month. Thus, I picked 1300km (800 mi) as my goal for the year, and as of today, the 21st of December, I achieved that goal! The equivalent of running from Brisbane to Townsville or New York to Savannah, Georgia.
I also continued my streak of running every week, which I’m now at 148 weeks in a row. This was perhaps one of the most challenging parts of this year for two reasons. One, during the first week of July, I took a pretty major fall while running. Both of my knees and one of my hands lost more skin than one would like… It’d be an understatement to say getting back out there after 4 days of “rest” wasn’t a mental and physical challenge. Then two, we spent three weeks in Italy, bouncing between six different places, walking over 300,000 steps and doing a couple very steep hikes. I still kept my commitment and ran once a week (in Genoa, Florence & Rome).
Once again, I ran in some pretty epic places: Fire Island NY, Newport RI, Upstate NY, at home in Australia (Mooloolaba, Rainbow Bay, & Cornubia Forest (even a few wallaby sightings)), Lake George NY, and Italy!
Some stats for the year… I knocked 26 seconds off my average pace from last year, averaging 5’11’’ for 2022. I once again set new PB’s in every distance I ran. I ran 10km+ 28 times, with a new 10km PB of 49:18 in October. I went on 233 runs in 355 days.
Thank you to everyone (especially my husband) that continues to cheer me on!
