Update on 3 minute kilometre goal

It has been a while since I've blogged, I don't have so much to say, I'm still trying to improve my speed, I've made some progress but there is still a fairly long way to go.

I've taken a second off my times for both 200 and 400m while with the help of a steady down-slope I managed to cover 500m in 1:32, five seconds quicker than I'd managed previously. Here is the updated table of my times, a * indicates an improvement on the times in the last blog:

	Desired Pace	Current Times
100m	00:18	00:15
200m	00:36	00:32*
400m	01:12	01:13*
500m	01:30	01:32*dh
800m	02:24	-
1km	03:00	03:20

The target date to achieve my goal was the end of June, which is not too far away now. My 500m best was done after two previous fast 500m efforts with a jog recovery, I think given a walk recovery I probably would have come in under 90 seconds. I'd like to be able to do the 3 minute kilometre on the flat but it seems that's a little beyond me at this stage, but with a slight downhill and coming at it reasonably fresh I might just make it.

I'll be back in a couple of weeks to let you know how I got on.

Happy running

El maratonero