Running record
I am rebuilding middle-distance training, with 800+ World Athletics points across 800–5000 m as a checkpoint in a lifelong project. The record follows what I try, what happens and how the training changes.
Notebook · Programme · Personal bests · History
Current training
Latest completed session in this record: 23 October 2026
The current cycle combines repeatable LT, VO₂ and fast sessions. The longer repetitions are now 3×1600 m and 3×900 m, after independently earning their next steps. The latest LT session was quicker and more composed; ankle tension afterwards keeps the next session conditional on recovery. The notebook explains the decisions; the programme retains the planned cycle and progression gates.
Recent sessions
- 23 October · LT, 3×1600 m6:18.46 average · quicker closing laps and good posture; ankle tension afterwards.
- 21 October · mixed-rest 4+4×200 mAbout 30.41 per 200 m · speed held through increasing stiffness; one longer rep converted to 200 m.
- 19 October · VO₂, 3×900 m2:57.00 average · smooth opening, then heavy legs and a difficult headwind.
Compare repeated workouts · All current sessions
Selected best marks
- 800 m
- 2:03.62Race · 2022
- 1500 m
- 4:23.90Race · 2022
- 5000 m · track
- 18:46Training · 2021
These marks come from different years and settings. The full personal-best table keeps dates, paces, points and measurement context together; the race history retains every recovered result.
History
Each period opens with its story and selected dated sessions. Monthly lists underneath retain the individual activity uploads.
Browse years: 2015–2026
Periods
- 2026: returning to the track — calibration, repeatable sessions and the independently earned LT and VO₂ progressions.
- 2023–2025: running beyond the track season — intermittent training, the Orange County Marathon and later long runs.
- 2022: the track season — the recovered programme, time trials and men's and U20 national championships.
- 2021: the 900s and the rest of the season — twelve iterations of a familiar workout, the South Park 5 km best and the running between them.
- 2020: short tests, track laps and longer runs — summer marks, mixed-pace sessions, the Sofia short race and longer road outings.
- 2015–2019: the early record — the neighbourhood loop, organized park races and the first exported runs.
Reading beyond the record
- 800–5000 m: a running notebook — goals, coaching decisions and the observations that change them.
- What should a running workout maximize? — the questions behind the training.
- Running makes the city smaller — the freedom to move through a city on foot.
How to read a record
Race results come from organizers or the athletics federation. Training times retain the repetition distance, recovery and circumstances recorded with them. A remembered effort keeps its uncertainty; a GPS distance remains a device measurement. These distinctions matter when two similar numbers describe different kinds of running.
Longer workout notes give pace per kilometre alongside the repetition times, using the stated work distance. Short fast repetitions retain their splits. The monthly lists show each recording's average moving pace, which can include recoveries. Hills, surface and distance uncertainty stay beside the pace wherever they affect the comparison. The notebook's 800-point goal profile supplies the common event standard behind the training.
Where climbing matters, the notes include recorded elevation gain or the known route profile. A gain total alone cannot establish an adjusted pace: how the climbs and descents are distributed matters too. Strava's grade-adjusted pace estimates a flat-equivalent pace from steepness and does not account for technical terrain or its condition. These records retain actual pace and terrain context; no adjusted values have been reconstructed from elevation totals.
Each period opens with the story and selected dated details. Beneath them, monthly lists preserve all 375 running activity uploads in the supplied history, through 8 October 2026 locally. Warm-ups and cool-downs can have their own recordings; several uploads can belong to one outing. The lists therefore count recordings rather than physical training sessions. Earlier races and unrecorded memories can still have a place here.
This history reaches from childhood park races to the present return to the track, with the workouts, longer outings and memories that connect them. The notebook holds the active project; these pages retain what happened as that project changes.
New sessions will join the relevant period. A substantial change in the training can begin another chapter; an ordinary month or completed cycle can remain inside one. The programme that governed a session stays identifiable after the next revision.