Playing with numbers

I have a huge deadline at work tomorrow... so of course I'm spending today doing anything but work on what I need to be working on. This post is for Suzanne, my weekend running partner.

I went back to this time last year (on my Garmin tracking - I LOVE technology) to see how my running was. Here were 5 runs in a row around this time:

Date Distance Time Pace

1/29/11 9.92 miles 1:45:04 10:35

2/5/11 9.74 miles 1:49:57 11:17

2/12/11 12 miles 2:08:36 10:43

2/13/11 4.31 miles 51:57 12:03

2/16/11 3.55 miles 37:29 10:34

*I'm assuming the weather was bad and I was doing some treadmill runs mid-week because there seem to be some huge gaps here.

And here are my last five runs this year:

Date Distance Time Pace

2/2 6.0 miles 58:34 9:44

1/31 5.54 miles 57:03 10:17

1/30 3.01 miles 29:04 9:40

1/29 9.85 miles 1:41:16 10:17

1/26 4.0 miles 37:52 9:27

1/22 10 miles 1:41 10:05

Last year I ran the Rock the Parkway half in 2:06:17 (my current PR). This year the race is two weeks later on the calendar. I had originally said that I didn't have any time ambitions. Now I'm starting to challenge myself... could I do a 2:05???

Ok, enough playing around... back to work