The Perils of Self Betterment

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Location:

UT,

Member Since:

Jan 17, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

yearly mileage totals (actual running miles, not crosstraining etc)

2008 - 1,317

2009 - 2,654

2010 - 2,578

2011 - 2,618

2012 - 3,083 (ran everyday this year. PR's in half and full marathons, at age 48!)

2013 - 1,177

2014 - 1,716

2015 - 1,060

2016 - 951

2017 - 786

2018 - 1,058

2019 - 1,211

2020 - 1010

2021 - 1064.9

2022 - 1135.9

Short-Term Running Goals:

reacquaint myself with my long lost running freak, and then proceed to get my running freak on

run faster

increase mileage in the Spring 

keep running

 

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

run

 

Personal:

born in 1964. married 25 years. one wife one dog

6 ft tall, nation wide

"Engaging in a little suffering — however self-imposed, arbitrary and contrived — before breakfast each morning tends to demand some humility and injects some marked relief into the rest of the day, making things sharper, more inspired, more immediately aware of the powerful presence of being. And that seems really worthwhile." A. Krupicka

 

"I cruised down hills, churned up hills, and floated over the asphalt, existing in a world that seemed to lack the confinements of such ubiquitous rivets as time, obligation, or pain. I knew then that this was destined to be one of those serendipitous runs for which so many of 
us strive yet so rarely achieve." J. Nevels

 

 

 

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Switchbacksblack Lifetime Miles: 176.50
Kinvara11(2) Lifetime Miles: 362.50
Kinvara11blue Lifetime Miles: 327.70
Rincon2 Lifetime Miles: 262.40
Spg 4’s Lifetime Miles: 135.50
Skechers Razor3 Lifetime Miles: 160.90
Rincon2(2) Lifetime Miles: 85.50
Asics Noosa14 Lifetime Miles: 73.00
Sauconyaxon2 Lifetime Miles: 73.80
Mach 4 Lifetime Miles: 34.50
Total Distance
57.60
Bandito's (2) Miles: 22.20Junk Shoes Miles: 8.20Asics DS 13 Miles: 6.00Hyperspeed 4 Miles: 11.00GSS 3 Miles: 10.20
Weight: 0.00
Total Distance
8.50

8.5 miles / 8:46 avg. Nice and easy from home post Christmas feeding frenzy funk run. Started out in light snowfall which grew in intensity as the run progressed. 

WT 45.1 miles

Bandito's (2) Miles: 8.50
Weight: 0.00
Comments(4)
Total Distance
8.20

8.2 miles / 8:42 avg. Easy progression run starting with a 9:30 mile and finishing with 8:08 for the eighth mile. Mostly sun, 33F.

WT 53.3 miles

Junk Shoes Miles: 8.20
Weight: 0.00
Comments(8)
Total Distance
13.70

13.7 miles / 8:50 avg. Commute run home. Overcast, 33F. Easy today as I'm just getting miles this week, and I've got this nagging neck/shoulder pain thing the last couple of days. Kind of feels like I slept on it wrong or something.

WT 56.6 miles

Bandito's (2) Miles: 13.70
Weight: 0.00
Comments(6)
Total Distance
6.00

6 miles / exquisitely easy. From work. Rain/snow, 36F. WINDY

WT 52.3 miles

Asics DS 13 Miles: 6.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(3)
Total Distance
0.00

Nay.

Weight: 0.00
Comments(7)
Total Distance
11.00

11 miles / 8:44 avg. Bluff trail. 15F, North wind, faux sun. Easy pace, good negative split. Low level cold that I've been under for the last three days is all but gone (thanks Airborne?).

WT 47.4 miles

Happy New Year!

                                    Year in Summary - 2010

 2009's totals in parenthesis

 

86 days with no running    (57)

Total miles =                    2,578.74 (2,654.15) 

# of runs =                       290 (331)

# of days run                    279 (308)

# of doubles                     11 (23)

Avg. miles per run            8.89 (8.02)

Avg. miles per day run      9.24 (8.62)

# of TM runs                    22 (32)

# of TM miles                   139.95 (194.05)

Avg. miles per TM run      6.36 (6.06) 

Biggest month                    247.05, March (260.95, April)

Most miles in one week period - Non blogular:

70.2  4/16 - 4/22 and 12/11 - 12/17  (81.2, August)

All within the Sun - Sat blog week format:

31 (17) weeks less than 50 miles

12 (21) weeks between 50 - 60 miles

9 (10) weeks between 60 - 70 miles

One 50k (October)

One marathon (PR - May)

One half marathon (PR - April)

One 5k (PR - July)

 

This year went great for me. I set my mileage goal at 2,500, which was less than what I had run in 2009, because I felt so wiped out in 2009 (my first full year of consistent running). I ended up running only 75 miles less this year than last, but I never felt the overwhelming fatigue that I did in 2009. This tells me that I'm stronger, my mileage base is good, not too many miles, but enough to improve on as evidenced by my PR's this year. Also, 2010's miles were spread out more evenly. I feel confident that I can run 3,000 miles in 2011 without hurting myself, though I expect it to be challenging in terms of time commitment and  keeping a higher mileage week. I'm look forward to enjoying some more over-long training runs in 2011 as I continue the delusion that I'll be able to run a 100 miler someday.









Hyperspeed 4 Miles: 11.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(1)
Total Distance
10.20

10.2 miles / 8:48 avg. From home to the mystery field track for a few laps then back. Sunny, 18F.

WT 57.6 miles

GSS 3 Miles: 10.20
Weight: 0.00
Comments(2)
Total Distance
57.60
Bandito's (2) Miles: 22.20Junk Shoes Miles: 8.20Asics DS 13 Miles: 6.00Hyperspeed 4 Miles: 11.00GSS 3 Miles: 10.20
Weight: 0.00
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