Best Run Times at the End of 2022
Since I finally managed to post about the last two runs from 2022, it’s time for another one of these posts, obviously just for my own use, likely including as a way to stay at least somewhat motivated. True, I obtained truly outstanding times in 2022, including new personal bests for all distances except 35.2 km, plus one for the final portion of a half marathon run through the park as well, and while that was mainly before getting COVID-19, taking some of that iron again helped me eventually recover after that as well, and after the marathon I could take it relatively easy, so it didn’t bother me quite that much when the times were somewhat poorer, but now I need to start preparing for this year’s half marathon, and in fact it can be said that the preparation started with this week’s run, while next week will be the first time since last year’s marathon when I’ll run more than ten kilometers, but it seems that the cold messed me up a lot more than it seemed and my times are once again going down the drain just when they should be improving.
Either way, just as before, I didn’t copy the times for the shorter distances, so those are still in the first two such posts. And I still consider the Dream Trek Summer Edition as something different and not relevant for these purposes, so I’m still not including it here, even if I took part in it last year as well. On the other hand, with the new additions compared to the previous such post again being underlined and the usual notes being in the same format, between square brackets, with the first value representing the distance and the second the lap on which that particular time was achieved, only a few additional comments were needed. And the times still include only the seconds, ignoring the fact that I now usually have exact ones as well, especially for the 10 km runs, and those may change some things. And I still won’t link to the page where I list all the times and also have charts, since it’s still in the temporary location and still lacks many of the dates, the situation being pretty much the same as it was a year ago.
10 km (through the park)
1. 45:59
2. 46:09
3. 46:18
4-5. 46:22 (twice)
6. 46:24
7. 46:28
8. 46:31
9. 46:32
10. 46:37
16 km (through the park)
1. 1:14:53
2. 1:15:10
3. 1:15:37
4. 1:15:40
5. 1:16:09
6. 1:16:16
7. 1:16:17
8. 1:16:47
9. 1:16:48
10. 1:16:54
Half Marathon (21.1 km)
I. Bucharest Half Marathon real time
1. 1:43:13
2. 1:45:36
3. 1:50:54
4. 1:51:54
5. 1:54:56
6. 2:02:38
II. Through the park
1. 1:42:20
2. 1:42:52
3. 1:43:15
4. 1:43:23
5. 1:44:04
6. 1:44:51
7. 1:45:50
8. 1:46:27
9. 1:46:41
10. 1:47:16
35.2 km (through the park)
1. 3:18:07
2. 3:23:09
3. 3:26:38
4. 3:44:40
Marathon (42.2 km) – Bucharest Marathon real time
1. 4:02:14
2. 4:11:28
3. 4:19:40
Lap around the park lake (3.2 km) [10-1 unless otherwise specified]
1. 14:21
2. 14:31
3. 14:38
4. 14:40 [10-3]
5-6. 14:41 (twice [10-3])
7. 14:43
8. 14:44 [16-1]
9-10. 14:46 (twice)
Lap sector one [10-1 unless otherwise specified]
Note: All times from last year are still here, despite the new additions.
1. 3:56
2-3. 4:03 (twice)
4. 4:06
5-8. 4:07 (and a second, third and fourth time)
9-14. 4:08 [16-1] (and a second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth [*] time)
Note: [*] = The first sector was not affected, but see the post for more details.
Lap sector two
1. 4:32 [10-1]
2. 4:42 [10-2] (Slightly uncertain that I remembered it correctly.)
3. 4:49 [16-2]
4-10. 4:50 [10-1] (and a second [10-2], third [16-2], fourth [10-1], fifth [10-1], sixth [10-3] and seventh [10-3] time)
Lap sector three [10-3 unless otherwise specified]
1. 5:24 [10-1]
2. 5:25 [10-1]
3. 5:32
4. 5:33 [16-5]
5. 5:34
6-10. 5:35 (and a second, third, fourth and fifth time)
Final sector on a 10 km run
Note: All times from one, two and three years ago are still here, despite the new additions.
1. 1:40
2-3. 1:41 (twice)
4-8. 1:42 (and a second, third, fourth and fifth time)
9-20. 1:43 (and a second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and thelfth time)
Final section of a Half Marathon (21.1 km) run (through the park)
1. 9:42
2. 9:52
3. 9:54
4. 10:00
5. 10:03
6. 10:04
7. 10:05
8-9. 10:10 (twice)
10-11. 10:11 (twice)
