A nice NSV

 I've been slowly and steadily building up my running base since about 4 weeks after my surgery. Last week I decided to go back to making one run my "long" run and I was able to add 15 minutes to my usual run of 50 minutes. This week I added another 15 minutes and happily got in 6.2 miles in 80 minutes. A 10K! That was a really pleasant surprise since I'm registered for one in March and now I have the confidence that I can cover the distance and I won't get swept for pace (I was at 12:54 today). I have 7 more weeks to whiddle that down to hopefully a steady 12-minute mile.

Today I had a nice flashback to what it felt like to be a runner and I LOVED it. I find myself craving this feeling more and more and that's an awesome thing.

Best wishes to everyone working on their own goals! You can do it!

Thanks for the encouragement and way to go on that distance... That is considered a medium distance run, so way to go!!!

Thanks so much, Dan! My goal is to have my "long" runs be 8 miles every wee****il I get ready to start training for a distance event. I definitely have some work to do to keep building that base but I feel like I'm making strides (no pun intended!). 

You're a huge inspiration! I love this group!

I'm so jealousof your time!! WTG!

I've been running for some time now and I guess I am just not built for speed.  I read your post and was whining to my husband about my pace and he suggested I train different.  This from the self professed couch potatoe to the athlete/trainer.  But crap!  He's right and I guess I needed an outside to tell me its time to change my program.  DUH.  I guess I'll scour the web and drag out my books.  So...thanks for the inspiration!  I needed that motivation and didn't even know it.  :)

 Texasmom,

Thanks for the reply! I am definitely not a speed runner either. 7 years younger and 50 lbs lighter my best 5K was around 28 minutes and I felt like I had broken the speed barrier that day. I used to run around a 10-minute mile and that was plenty fast for me. 

I don't know if this will help but I've been doing interval training to help me work on speed. I'll do an interval maybe starting at 4.7 mph, walk for 2 minutes, then do the next one at 4.8 mph, walk, 4.9 mph, etc. My last interval I go totally anaerobic and go way beyond my normal ability for speed. Over the weeks the curve has gradually moved up so where I used to have to start at 4.5 mph and work my way up, now it's 4.8 or 4.9 depending on how long I'm going that day. That's helped *me* a lot but I have no idea if that's a recommended training method. 

Good luck!!! We're in this together! :)