Finished the 12 Days of 5k's

As I mentioned in 12 5k's of December, I signed up for the American Cancer Society's 12 Days of 5ks on Facebook virtual challenge advertised in my Facebook feed.

I'm not much of a runner, but I've been following some Runna running plans since April or so.

I was going to be doing 8 5k's on the Runna plan anyway, so I thought "how hard can it be" to run 4 more runs during the month.

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I'm proud to report that I accomplished this goal. In fact, I actually finished 13 5k's during the month. More if you count walks.

I guess I'm a runner now.

My current running PR's now are:

• 400 meters ... 2:01 (8:07 per mile) ... 12/15/2025
• half mile: 04:39 (9:18 per mile) ... 08/08/2025
• 1 km: 5:48 (9:22 per mile) ... 07/04/2025
• 1 mile: 9:41 (9:41 per mile) ... 07/04/2025
• 2 mile: 19:38 (9:49 per mile) ... 12/22/2025
• 5 km: 30:47 (9:54 per mile) ... 01/06/2026
• 10 km: 1:08:35 (11:02 per mile) ... 12/18/2025

I actually gained enough confidence from this month of running that I've signed myself up for a Half Marathon.

I have a new Runna plan entered to get me ready to run this Half Marathon.

Crazy!

Currently, my Garmin Connect predicts I can run a Half Marathon in 2:16:06 (10:23 per mile)
Strava predicts I can run a Half in 2:26:19 (11:10 per mile)
And ... Runna has my estimated race time at 2:11:00 to 2:18:00 (10:00 per mile to 10:32 per mile)

I tried to treat my latest 5k (latest as I type this) as a "race", and I got my PR, but it was not anywhere close to these race predictors, so I'm thinking that these are overly optimistic targets. Strava seems like a much more reasonable prediction

I guess we'll see in April how well I do.

I'm very likely to post more Running articles on this blog in 2026. Keep an eye out for those.

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