A little pat on my own back!!! 7:15 mile

Well Done!  Congratulations on your excellent 7:15 mile, and for putting that crushing race experience behind you.  Good luck in your 5K PR effort--success is soooo close.  I am sure it will motivate you to keep it up during the off-season.  You will bust out of the gates raring to go this spring.  Best of luck.

Congrats on your achievement! You are making great progress.

Curious as to how you timed your splits. If it was with a Garmin, it could be wildly inaccurate. My Garmin has given me splits for 5:10 miles and I'm not capable of running anything remotely close to that. It recetly gave me a split of 6:26 for the last mile of a half marathon and while I could possibly run that fast for a single mile, it's very doubtful I ran that fast at the end of a half. Hopefully your split timing came from something more accurate.

Hand held wrist stopwatch on a previously measured mile, i have not graduated to a Garmin yet. ;0)

 Garmin... wristwatch... sundial... who cares!  Ride the high, my friend.

Screw that....it is fast for anyone! Nice job!

That is sweet.  Conratulations.  Sounds like you have come a long way in 3 months.  At 240 lbs, to go that fast, that soon, it is really an accomplishment.

 Please be cautious however.  I started running many a times, experienced success, but then continued to push myself too hard so that I could keep improving at the same rate, always resulted in failure, dissapointment, and me quiting, sometimes with a mild injury.  I started around 250 and I found I had to be super duper duper careful with the running.  I do not want to make you paranoid or anything, but it sucked bad to make that progress and then have it taken away from me just because I was a little greedy and pushed my body to hard.

 Again, conratulations, and keep it up.

WaterDog66 - 2008-10-24 10:22 AM Awesome

The nature of the 5k is that it is very difficult to replicate race results in a non-race setting. If your doing a 7:15 mile in a training run, I might suggest that a Sub-30 5k is very much in the bag.

Keep up the great running.

Agreed. If you can run a 7:15 during training, a 30-minute 5k is not a very lofty goal. I'd shoot for the low 20's. Way to go!