An Old Man's NSV

I started out on this new me last October and as part of losing 100+lbs I tried some "running". A few hundred yards and I was done. But I kept on plodding. At last I could run 1 mile. OK it was a 15min mile, but I ran it non stop I was delighted. Through out November and December I plodded on Milestones were passed. 14 min mile, 30 mins non stop. 5km run, 1 hr non stop, 13 min mile, even just for 1 mile I reached 12 min miles.
At this stage, being a man with a mission I had to buy the boys toys and bought myself a Polar RC3 GPS watch I could now really measure my running. Oh and while in the store I was measured up and bought some ridiculously expensive running shoes. Jan 20th I ran my first race 10k in 1hr 17 min. That was 12:17 min miles for the whole 10k As we say in England I was well chuffed.
I continued on, in May I ran another 10k race 1hr 09min, I had broken the 11 min mile barrier. Even more delighted.
On to June and my first half marathon. I finished, without stopping, 2hs 28min 10:20 min miles pace, great.
I have continued to train as my next half marathon is in October, and this morning went out on my long run. I did 8.5 miles and was feeling pretty good all the way through the run. When I got home I downloaded from the Polar watch on to the computer and was astounded not only to see my time but the 1 mile split times that I had achieved. Here is a screen shot of the data.



I had an overall pace of 09:32 with all of the mile splits under 10min. Total delight.