New Running Goals

I am now picking my running goals for the full and half marathon this year:

For the Half-Marathon, I will try to run 9:02 minute miles with a goal of 1:59:05, but I will try to hit 8:27 minute miles and see how I feel in my pre-training, as that would get me into the 'D' corral for the marathon (and a 'D' xxxx bib number).

For the Marathon, my current goal is 9:05 pace with a goal of 3:58:09, but if I can't keep that pack up for my 20 miler runs beforehand, I will knock it back to a 10:00 pace and and take the 4:22:11 time.  

I did a 'test' 5K run yesterday and kept a strong 9:00 pace, and this is only a few weeks into serious running this year and on the first week of my training program.

No matter what, I will be beating my 5:40:53 time that made me so sad last year.  As another note, my toes finally healed from the marathon. =)