I'm still working out the details in the whole time management thing with grad school and running, but I think I made some progress this year (with the help of CRC, of course).
My training for the Baystate marathon at the end of October got me a 2 minute PR. My finishing time of 2 hours 54 minutes was about 5-6 minutes slower than I anticipated based on my training, but I think most of the time loss came due to dehydration in the last 5 miles or so. I'll go for sub-2:50 next April in Boston (when it hopefully won't be nearly 70F towards the end of the race).
Earlier in December, I ran with CRC in a race called the Assault on Mt. Hood. It's a race on a golf course that varies its course each year and the prizes include nutcrackers. The prizes alone make the race worth running, but we got a bonus this year: a snow storm during the race.
The snow left me with a nice crown of frost atop my hair and our team (CRC's Partridge in a Pear tree) won first place!
I'm hoping to run more shorter distance races like Mt. Hood before competing in Boston next April.
:^)