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
50.60
Kinvara2 Miles: 23.60Hattori Miles: 8.00Bandito's (2) Miles: 6.00Hattori The 2nd Miles: 8.00Hyperspeed 4 Miles: 5.00
Weight: 0.00
Total Distance
11.30

11.3 miles from work. very quiet on the roads. nice running weather. easy @ 9:08 avg.

WT 59 miles

 

Kinvara2 Miles: 11.30
Weight: 0.00
Comments(3)
Total Distance
8.00

8 miles from work. overcast, cold. from work - 3 mile warmup on the road, three mile tempo on the HS track, 2 mile cool down back to work. 8:23 avg. for the run.

splits: 9:17, 9:17, 8:56, (7:37, 7:32, 7:15), 8:30, 8:40

WT 57 miles

Hattori Miles: 8.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(3)
Total Distance
6.00

6 miles from work. same weather as yesterday. my wife's grandpa's funeral today, plus work, left little time (or desire) to run but i managed to sneak in an easy 6...

WT 56 miles

Bandito's (2) Miles: 6.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(2)
Total Distance
12.30

12.3 miles easy from work/ rio grande prkwy north out and back. great weather with overcast sky and temps in the high 40's. started off feeling pretty good but faded substantially the last 4 miles. 8:54 avg.

WT 57.8 miles

Kinvara2 Miles: 12.30
Weight: 0.00
Comments(2)
Total Distance
8.00

easy 8 from work. felt odd the first few minutes with no hat, gloves and wearing short sleeves.

WT 55.6 miles

 

posted 3 specific running goals for 2012 on the left under "short-term running goals."

Hattori The 2nd Miles: 8.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(2)
Total Distance
5.00

5 miles on the MFT. very, very, very easy pace.

WT 50.6 miles

 

some stats for 2011:

total miles -                  2618.8

# of days run -             279

# of days off -              86

# of doubles -              14

avg miles per day run - 9.4

avg miles per run -       8.9 

biggest month -            302.7 (oct.)

lowest month -             150.1 (may)

biggest week -             77.6 (feb 20-26th)

longest streak -            61 days (sept. 5th - nov. 4th)

longest break -             6 days (in May for an achilles rest)

 2011 was my third full year of "consistent" running. with 86 days off for the year, (coincidentally the exact same as 2010!),  i hesitate to call this consistent running - but these last 3 years have surpassed any other running i have done in my life. i used to run 2 or 3 times a week and throw in a 20 miler or two, then run a marathon and call myself a runner. so, things are different now. since joining the blog i have run only 2 marathons, but i've cut over a half hour off my old pr from a decade ago. i only ran 3 races in 2011. the buffalo 50 miler is the longest - i ran it in 10 hours 10 ish minutes. i was pleased to get it done. i got pr's in the s.l. half in May (1:43: something) and in a 4th of July 5k (21:33). i know i can run faster than this and want to race at least once a month in 2012.

Happy New Year!

 

 


Hyperspeed 4 Miles: 5.00
Weight: 0.00
Comments(4)
Total Distance
50.60
Kinvara2 Miles: 23.60Hattori Miles: 8.00Bandito's (2) Miles: 6.00Hattori The 2nd Miles: 8.00Hyperspeed 4 Miles: 5.00
Weight: 0.00
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