annual rewind
while i prefer to look forward, it can be valuable to look back once and awhile.
miles
with a little extra effort in the closing days of 2013 i was able to push my mileage total for the year to 2,600 miles which is a new record for me. (old record – 2,213 miles in 2012) my odometer is now north of 37,500 miles which gives me a shot at crossing forty thousand by the end of 2014.
racing
while i race sparingly, i’m still fairly pleased with what i was able to accomplish. improving my personal best this spring at the half marathon distance by two minutes was unexpected and gives me some hope for eventually lowering my marathon best as well. the highlight of my summer racing was schooling a couple of high school kids over five kilometers; although i wish i could have been a few seconds faster so i would have been sub-18 minutes. dropping thirty seconds or so off my fifty kilometer best this fall was encouraging as well but i still feel that i didn’t perform to the best of my ability on that day.
weight
over the year i’ve been able to slowly whittle myself from the upper 150’s down to the lower 150’s. without question, it’s much easier to race when closer to an ideal weight.
streak
without necessarily intending to embark on a daily running streak, i have managed to run a minimum of four miles daily for more than nine months now. the United States Running Streak Association defines a streak as one mile daily for at least a year so i’ve got a bit of work to do between now and late March of 2014. once past the officially defined duration, i’ll likely take a day off…which will make my dad happy.
12/20 – 5 miles
12/21 – 4 miles
12/22 – 5 miles
12/23 – 5 miles
12/24 – 5 miles snowshoeing
12/25 – 7 miles
12/26 – 7.25 miles
12/27 – 6 miles snowshoeing
12/28 – 7 miles
12/29 – 4 miles
12/30 – 10 miles
12/31 – 8.5 miles
MTD – 172.75 miles (31/31 Days, 27 Hours & 2 Minutes)
YTD – 2,600 miles (361/365 Days, 379 Hours & 27 Minutes)
Odometer – 37,539 miles