Year End Numbers 2025

Obligatory EOY post with numbers

Connect puts me at 2197.4 of running.   Strava has me at 2194.

  

This came on the "back nine" - with almost no miles in January.

Signing up for Pikes, motivated by nudge from Don S if I am honest, got me moving a bit in June.   It was a good nudge.  More that at some point.  

December was the highest volume month in terms of miles, but it actually was about level in terms of time (the last months of the year were around 39 hours a month) - coming in with less than 10k of vert (CA travel to the Bay there). 

Apparently last year I did 2300 miles ... 

I walked a lot ... I actually measured it this year.  Shaking my head at how much I walked in January.  For interest I eyeballed steps.  That came at just under 19k a day.  

Brief check in, 2k.

I passed through 2k miles on the year sometime this past week.  It is not really a grand accomplishment, especially since in recent years I have been more likely to come around on this number somewhere in July (in 2017, I finished July with 2200 plus miles). 

I was actively discussing with GW this week that I’d probably be better off doing something like 50-55 a week and taking the time that I use for the other 10-15 miles a week and getting into the gym to do strength work, particularly leg stuff.  I am a big chicken s**t at that when it comes to that sort of discipline though. 

The last few days back home have been nicely solid, rolling around 11 miles around 7 minutes and change. 

Numbers

2892.7 miles, 400.49 hours, 143,120 feet.
67 run days off.
31 work travel nights (8% business travel), 14 non work travel nights, 19 camping nights
7.66 hours of running a week on average, 55.32 miles a week, average pace was 7.2+mph, 67.7 miles a week average if counting just the days run.

2015 for comparison was 3451.5 miles (averaging 66.19 miles a week), 236,905 vertical feet, 478.53.15 hours (averaging 9.18 hours a week), 40 days off and 65 travel nights for work (18%) and then 14 nights of camping. 

2014 – 3436.9 miles, 172005 vert and 459.7 hours
2013 – 3493.6 miles, 272300 vert and 512.1 hours
2012 – 3367 miles, 236,110 vert and 529.92 hours
2011- 3629 miles, 264,848 vert and 543.37 hours
I know 2010 was 4100 miles …

This December 2016 was 296.2 miles, 40.55 hours, and 13875 feet.  It is the second highest month for me in the year, and being about a replica of November, represents the first time in a over a year that I have put together two months of good base work.

Thursday 31DEC2015

AM – got out with JZ over to practice (a half an hour or so with him) and then added on for a total of 10.7. 

It is that day of the year to reckon up with the stats – not that they mean much, other than I suspect I will look at them some day and wonder how or why I did this.  Sort of like this.  Then again, it will never look like this.

2015
3451.5 miles (averaging 66.19 miles a week)
236,905 vertical feet
478.53.15 hours (averaging 9.18 hours a week)
40 days off

Comparing it to prior years:

	2011	2012	2013	2014
Miles	3629	3367	3493.6	3436.9
Vert	264848	236110	272300	172005
Hours	543.37	529.92	512.06	459.7

As a side note December was 273.6 miles, with 13795 feet and 41.5 hours … sort of representing getting back to some semblance of good habits after challenging months of September through November. 

Also, 65 travel nights for work (18%) and then 14 nights of camping.  There are probably another 2 weeks of vacation nights on the road in there (the Baltics), so I was sleeping somewhere other than home at least a quarter of the year. 

I really want to get away from the general thinking about miles, vert and time this next year.  I will still track it and there are times when I think chasing numbers might be right for me as part of some overall goals but with 17378 miles over the last five years, and the changes that come with aging, I probably don’t need to pump the base much, or at least not as much as the fact I could get more benefit from working on other things.  Maybe stuff like this. Or maybe this.  But basically, " You can love an idea, but don’t be married to it. "

Strava users get this fun at the end of the year

2015 as a year of running for me … awesome.  Leadville .. My second run at 100 miles and while slower than my prior attempt at the distance, a much better effort for me.  I learned a lot from the Leadville race, particularly when all the little weaknesses caught up to me at the top of the Powerline and plagued me to the finish.  I don’t know if I will ever look to do that sort of thing again to see if I can overcome those flaws, but I am thankful for the opportunity I had to do that run, and that so many loved ones were around me throughout it.

Of course, the highlight of the year was winning the Triple Crown with Jack.  Now that there is a little distance in tinme from it, I recognize how in each of those races I had lost a belief we could win, let it go, and then was in amazement how Jack made it happen each time.  While it was three races this season, I feel it was a building over many races since 2010 that came to culmination this year.  There are so many to thank for that effort, including Bill, Brad and his family, Justin and Yukon and my family.  While I have run hundreds of more races outside of burro racing, winning this series with Jack seems to have branded me as “the guy who runs with donkeys” probably for the rest of my life.  It is a tat I wear with a grin.

No specific resolutions for 2016, but certainly with the down time over the last two weeks there has been a fair amount of thought as to what is next in terms of running, recreation, family, work, and self.  Now, at this stage of my life, there is a growing realization that the people around me don’t care about my personal productivity. They want to see me happy and serene.  Beyond this half I am doing with KZ in a couple of weeks, I have no specific race plans.  But as good man Brownie (despite his post high school education) points out, the best thing to remember for themes or resolutions or whatever …

I urge you to notice when something is awesome, as it often is, and exclaim or murmur or just make a mental note of it. Isn’t it just goddamn fantastic that you have your health, for example? Or running water, or electricity? Or that you have enough money to actually pay someone else to make you a cup of coffee? Or if you want ice cream, you are at any time in America probably only 5 or 10 minutes away from a place that sells some form of it?

Or maybe what Andy sez. 

This is worth 20 minutes of your time (again).