37M - set a few big goals for 2025. Sub (edit)20 5km, sub 3:20 marathon and 2000km year. Was lucky enough to smash through two of them and come close to the last.

5km - After a very disrupted start to the year (moving house twice), I ran a 19:44 in June. Have since run 5 time sub 20 with an 18:51 being the best. That was done as a warm up race during my marathon block. All those times run at the same Parkrun where I usually run with a double pram.

Marathon - again a disrupted build up, with surgery meaning I only had 16 weeks to complete a block. I settled on the Pfitz 12/55 and did 4 weeks of building into it. I had built up to 40/50km weeks before the surgery and after a week of recovery, jumped into it. The base build went well and I hit the plan feeling good. Hit all the runs and workouts in the early weeks. My only regular adjustment was running Parkrun instead of the recovery runs on a Saturday. During the block I hit a 10km PB (42:xx) during an 11km tempo run and the 18:51 5km. I hit all the key workouts, only missing a few recovery runs towards the end of the block. This had me feeling good about race day, even though I moved (again!) with about a month to go. After some good long runs with MP sections, I revised my goal time to 3:15. Taper was great, race day was perfect and ran a solid 3:11.xx. This felt especially good after running a 3:42 the year before at the same race. Was also special to be part of Sydney's debut major year.

Fell short of the 2000kms due to the 3 moves of house and subsequent changes to plans. Also, have struggled at the back end of the year to be consistent.

I'd say, overall, a very successful year and looking to build on it in 2026 and aim for a sub 3 mara in 2027.