Let's start with today's end of year run. I had planned on running 8 miles pretty easy, but backed off to 6 miles due to a late start. On the plus side, I saw a beautiful sunrise. I turned onto a road (facing west) and saw the entire cloudy sky with spots of red on the underside. The red wasn't consistent, but only on the very lowest parts of the clouds. I turned around and saw the sun coming up bathing the everything in red in the eastern sky. It was quite a site. I normally don't see the sun during my week day runs, and I purposely started in the daylight today not because I wanted to see the sunrise (that was an added bonus), but it's a LOT easier to run in the light than in the dark. I ran 6.01 miles at an 8:54 pace.
Okay, now for the year end... I ran 1,066.09 miles this year (according to my running log), and out of a total possible 365 total days to run, I ran 160 of them (or 44% of the days). I averaged 88 miles per month, with a peak of 178 miles in a single month (March), but a low of 39 miles in a month (September). I ran in four races (sort of): National Marathon - 1/2 distance; Frederick Marathon; Phedippidations World Wide Half (1/2 Marathon); and the Goblin Gallop 5K. I ran the National with My Lovely Wife and the Goblin Gallop with My Number One Son. I ran the World Wide Half by myself - I'm counting it as I got a race bib :) and I ran the Frederick with my family cheering me on.
My goals for 2008? 1,300 miles and four races. I got the four races in.. but was short on the miles. The general malaise over the summer and late fall certainly impacted my miles, as at the mid-point of my year, I was averaging 27 miles per week, versus the 20 miles per week at year end. For those of you wanting to see a graph of my 2008 run summary, here it is:
Next year's goals? Dunno yet. I'll have to think about it a little more. I'm running the Shamrock Marathon with My Lovely Wife, but don't have any other race plans yet. I'm not sure I want to increase my distance right now, maybe I'll go back to running 1/2 marathons. As for mileage, maybe 1,100 miles is a good goal for now.
See you in 2009.
2 comments:
What? No running total on the graph? What are we supposed to do? Integrate to find the area under the slope? :p
If you did add it up, you would have noticed that my yearly total actually did not match the numbers on the graph. I guess over the details of 160 runs, I got about 8 miles off.
Thanks for the comment though :)
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