It's slow, but I'm celebrating anyhow

This time last year I was struggling to do a 36 minute 3 mile run.
Today I just did a 28:06 3 mile run.
That is a PR for me.
Now if I could just take 8 more minutes off I think I might need a horse to do that though.

Scott

Great work on the PR!  congrats!  that's a helluva improvement....

 Good job!!!!  Keep at it, I bet you'll make it.

Duane

Dude, that's gettin er dun! Heck of an improvement, and by no means is it slow. Keep working bro, the seconds and minutes will continue to get chopped...(Kind of like how my mullet was in 8th grade)

Awesome man.  The PR is the second best feeling in the world.  Keep up the outstanding work!

That's fantastic!

Congratulations!!  That's a great improvement.  What's your secret?  When I ran my 5K in August, I did about a 36 minute race and I gave it all I had.....could not have went any faster.  28 minutes.....WOW!!!!  Great job!!

Tammy

I can't even begin to tell you what the secret is.  I wish I knew.
My miles have increased, I have been doing lots of 4+ mile runs.
I have a couple 1/2 marathons in there between when I started and what happened yesterday.
When I'm on the treadmill I have been doing intervals of increased speed and increased incline.  Just trying to vary the workouts so they aren't so boring.
I have also done a couple 1 mile speed tests, where I just run as fast as I can for 1 mile.

I don't know if it was any one thing, or all of it, or just a general increas in fitness.

I will tell you that I thought I was going to be sick when I finished, it's not like it was easy.
I do find that if I don't look at my watch I end up running faster than I intended to.  I think I'm finally finding my comfortable stride.  It's just what my body wanted to run.


Scott