May 2025

5 months into the year and another River 2 River relay in the books.  

I ran leg 8 this year, which is the leg I've run 3 out of 4 years.  This was my slowest leg 8 but I performed slightly better than last year when I ran leg 4, running a slightly faster pace ~7:50 average on a tougher course.

Its been 2 weeks since River 2 River and the effort really took it out of me but I'm slowly recovering and been continuing to put in mileage even with my legs being sort of dead.

Last year I got a few short runs in after river to river and then tapered off and took about 2 months off.  In fact I ran 28 miles between River to River last April and July 1st.  This year I've already got in 21 miles since River 2 River.  

This year I hope to forgo the break.  Train through the summer and then see what I can run at the Old Settlers Day 5K in August.  Last year I ran 22:20 so should have plenty of room for improvement by then if I keep running and way more room if I actually get in some decent training.  Stretch goal would be to break 20 minutes but probably need to start getting serious pretty soon.

For the year I'm at 275 miles. Right now I'm on pace for about 800 miles in 2025.  Hope to get in at least 1000 miles if I can keep building.  Don't have a ton of time to train but have been relatively consistent, getting out 3-4 times a week,