2008 December & Year-end Totals

[La]

I didn't see this thread started yet, so I thought I would since I'm done my running for the month/year now.

I don't think I logged everything on itsmyrun.com in 2008 (April only shows 1 run, and I'm sure I ran more than that!), but I did log a lot, and was quite good in the last two months of logging. Here are my totals:

December:
12 runs
120kms
12hrs, 24mins
Ave pace: 6:11/km

2008:
85 runs
856km
86hrs, 17mins
Ave pace: 6:02/km

Hey, Robbie, it would be cool if there was a way to track triathlon races on itsmyrun differently than running races so that it only includes your running time in your run totals.

[CinC]

back to logging (kinda dropped formally doing it over Sept/Oct)

775 min of spinning (12hrs, 55min) - 12 sessions
345 min swimming (5hrs, 45min) - 8 sessions (will prob be one more btwn today or tomorrow)
305 min of running (5hrs, 5min) - 8 sessions (plus one more tomorrow night for the res run)
550 min of boot camp/core/strength (9hrs, 10min) - 6 classes, 3 other sessions
plus 1 downhill ski day (about 4hrs)

week totals (I did keep track in Nov)
Nov 3-9 - 3hrs, 30min
Nov 10-16 - 7hrs, 45min
Nov 17-23 - 4hrs, 15min
Nov 24-30 - 7hrs, 30min
Dec 1-7 - 10hrs
Dec 8-14 - 6hrs
Dec 15-21 - 8hrs
Dec 22-28 - 7hrs, 45min

[ROW]

Decembers total:
No swimming since pool is closed for a month
No biking
137km done of running 56 km of basebuilding in 302:07 avg pace 5:23
81km of ATB training in 3:38:23 avg pace 4:10. Together 137km in 640:30 avg pace 4:40.

Year total
136 hours of swimming(January to november)
647.9km of running (July to December)

Pr's this year:
3km 12:27
5km:21:45
6km: 28:27 (going for 26 minutes for Res run tommorrow)
800: 2:24

[Smitty]

Same No. Of runs as last year - 179
Increased milage by 500k to - 2431.5K
Roughly same amount of nagging injuries.

[Doonst]

2,355 Kms this year, down from 2,612 last year. I was a bit ahead for the first nine months, then the last three I did 127 (inc. a marathon), 77 (inc. a marathon!) and December was 70 Kms. Runs, 192 this year, 204 last year.
Thanks as always to Robbie-T for itsmyrun.

[JenniferMcCreath]

hi,

i'm fairly new to the site. i take pride in doing lots of mileage.

here's a history of how my year has gone!

Month total km / net km

Jan 126.30 / 126.30
Feb 114.50 / 240.80
Mar 299.50 / 540.30
April 317.10 / 857.40
May 347.00 / 1204.00
June 352.60 / 1556.60
July 415.40 / 1972.00
Aug 572.80 / 2566.80
Sept 325.40 / 2892.20
Oct 300.90 / 3193.10
Nov 241.90 / 3435.00
December 176.60 / 3611.60 km (includes my anticipated 5k tomorrow!)


# of days in which i ran 42.2k or more: 33

most consecutive days running 42.2k or more: 4 (Aug 7-10) the infamous Quadzilla!

training - ultra calendar days:

05/18/08 sun 52.80 km
05/31/08 sat 46.40 km
06/01/08 sun 53.60 km
07/01/08 tue 85.00 km
08/01/08 fri 42.70 km
08/02/08 sat 58.80 km
10/03/08 fri 44.10 km

24 hour periods which i ran 55k or more:

05/31/08 - 06/01/08 55.80 km run within 24 hours
07/01/08 - 07/01/08 85.00 km run within 13.52 hours
08/02/08 - 08/03/08 80.50 km run within 24 hours
08/07/08 - 08/08/08 69.20 km run within 22.30 hours
10/03/08 - 10/04/08 60.00 km run within 24 hours

multiple day training runs of significance:

08/07/08 - 08/10/08: 168.80 km
(4 marathon equivalents: 17 hours of running within 77 hours)

08/01/08 - 08/10/08: 329.40 km
(equivalent of 7.5 marathons + in 9.5 days!)

Official Marathons:

05/11/08 Mississauga Marathon (Mississauga, ON) 3.19.06
06/08/08 Eastern Marathon (Portugal Cove, NL) 3.22.16
06/15/08 Johnny Miles Marathon (New Glasgow, NS) 3.43.10
07/20/08 Massey Ontario Marathon 3.16.59 (BQ & PB)
09/14/08 Newfoundland Marathon (St. John's, NL) 3.36.16
09/27/08 Akron Ohio Marathon 3.50.05
09/28/08 Toronto Waterfront Marathon 3.42.26

Claim to Fame:

Unofficially, the only Newfoundlander and only out Transsexual in world history to complete 2 marathons in 2 countries in 2 days! (note i was 7 minutes faster on day two!)

2009 goals:

- use running as a way to get my weight down below 160 pounds, and keep it below 160 pounds for the rest of my life!

- training run of 126.6k in a 24 hour period, at least once!

- training runs of 42.2k seven days in a row, at some point.

- run more than 5000k in the calendar year

- run 10 official marathons

- run 4 official marathons in 4 different states within 9 days - likely to occur as follows: Charlottesville 4/18/08, Boston 4/20/08, Louisville 04/25/08, Toledo 04/26/08

- use my status as a marathon-running transsexual as a way to promote positive education, awareness, and acceptance among society regarding transsexualism.

...you'll notice no time-oriented goals here. As i transition from male to female, my strength speed and endurance has taken a hit, and will continue to fall as i get deeper into estrogen therapy; therefore, it is essentially impossible to gain a clear understanding of time expectations. once i have fully transitioned, i will be able to start setting time goals again..

[HCcD]

Umm, OK, Jennifer, You Win !!! Welcome to RM, you truly are a Maniac ...

aka vfong from the RR Forum ...

As for me, will be closing 2008 with my highest total ever, just shy of 2,800K (depending on what I do on New Year's Eve / Day ...

[Ken B]

Interesting year for the tortoise in 2008. I had some injuries, a serious lung infection that wiped out running for the months of April and May. So final totals for 2008 are as follows:

Running ( mostly outdoors but some dreadmill work ) 2685 kms

Walking ( 6o-40 split outdoors vs dreadmill ) 1475 kms

Cycling ( stationary bike only ) 1070 kms.


These totals include the distances for the following events:

Jan 01 - Resolution Run 10 km
12 - Disney World Half Marathon
13 - Disney World Marathon
Feb 16 - Myrtle Beach 24 km ( Retired from Marathon due to quad injury )
Mar 30 - Around the Bay 30 km
Jun 21 - Anchorage, Alaska Half Marathon
Sep 14 - Erie Marathon
Sep 21 - Canadian Army Half Marathon
Oct 04 - RunForTheToad 25 km
Oct 09 - Octoberfest 10 km
Nov 02 - Hamilton Marathon
Dec 14 - Egg Nog Jog 10.8 km
Dec 26 - Hamilton Boxing Day 10 Miler


As I indicated, it certainly was an intriquing year for running.


Good luck to everyone for 2009. ( Including me!! )

[ian]

Jan: 15 runs, 288K
Feb: 9, 212K
Mar: 17, 425K
Apr: 15, 311K
May: 17, 345K
Jun: 20, 362K
Jul: 27, 535K
Aug: 20, 347K
Sep: 20, 343K
Oct: 24, 357K
Nov: 22, 460K
Dec: 22, 415K

2008 totals: 228 runs, 4400K

By distance...
5 - 9K: 19
10-14K: 60
15-19K: 68
20-24K: 22
25-29K: 21
30-34K: 13
35-39K: 4
40-44K: 18
45-49K: 2
50-54K: 1

[deerdree]

2008 totals: 228 runs, 4400K

awesome!!

eta: i don't actually have a log of all my workouts from 2008, but i ran consistently and that's good with me.

[toobusy]

2008 - and I actually have totals this year! I did around:

Swimming - 64 702m
Biking - 1934km
Running - 722km

[ChrisL]

I had to add a couple of run to meet my goal:

2008 run: 3,011km

I hope to go over 3,500km in 2009.

[Run26.2]

By distance...

40-44K: 18
45-49K: 2
50-54K: 1

Wow....I'd want a medal for each of those 21 runs.....well done!

[दिवंगत]

These are approximate as I didn't keep a detailed log until mid March.

Run: 1,127km
Bike: 4,436km
Swim: 94,217m

I didn't do anything at all from October 24 to November 24 due to injury and I haven't been near the water since September 14, yikes!

[Run26.2]

Is anyone running tomorrow? One more day to lay down some big numbers, people.....

[ian]

By distance...

40-44K: 18
45-49K: 2
50-54K: 1

Wow....I'd want a medal for each of those 21 runs.....well done!

12 of them were official races (11 marys and one ultra) and 3 more were bizarre 42K "shallonges" with a running buddy: December's "beer marathon", July's "106 laps around the track marathon", and April's "blizzard marathon"... we even made bibs . Coming soon: the "treadmill marathon" and the "stupid 2K hill loop 21 times to get us ready for Boston marathon".

[DougG]

Wow, there are some incredible totals.

[Ed Fizz]

By distance...

40-44K: 18
45-49K: 2
50-54K: 1

Wow....I'd want a medal for each of those 21 runs.....well done!

12 of them were official races (11 marys and one ultra) and 3 more were bizarre 42K "shallonges" with a running buddy: December's "beer marathon", July's "106 laps around the track marathon", and April's "blizzard marathon"... we even made bibs 8) . Coming soon: the "treadmill marathon" and the "stupid 2K hill loop 21 times to get us ready for Boston marathon".

These are hilarious!!!

[La]

12 of them were official races (11 marys and one ultra) and 3 more were bizarre 42K "shallonges" with a running buddy: December's "beer marathon", July's "106 laps around the track marathon", and April's "blizzard marathon"... we even made bibs . Coming soon: the "treadmill marathon" and the "stupid 2K hill loop 21 times to get us ready for Boston marathon".

Sounds like something dgrant would do!

[Strider]

Goal for the year was 3600km. Last year I had the same goal and fell short, this year I crushed it

2008 Total - 3842 km.

Goal for 2009 - 4000km starts tomorrow.

[FishHog]

2008 for me

1,967km Running
5,715km Cycling
100.9km Swimming

With the main goal of finishing my first Ironman the end of August, which I'm proud to say I did.

FishHog

[DougG]

2,355 Kms this year, down from 2,612 last year. I was a bit ahead for the first nine months, then the last three I did 127 (inc. a marathon), 77 (inc. a marathon!) and December was 70 Kms. Runs, 192 this year, 204 last year.

Sheldon, that's an impressive total; and that's a down year? Wow.

[cgraham]

Overall a pretty good year. Could have been better (although when can you not say that), but my achilles kept me sidelined a couple of times (see if you can guess when by looking at the monthly totals....)

Dec: 450.6k; 26 runs
Nov: 371.7k; 22 runs
Oct: 260.4k; 23 runs
Sept: 418.1k; 25 runs
Aug: 245.1k; 19 runs
Jul: 471.1k; 29 runs
Jun: 341.8k; 20 runs
May: 404.4k; 29 runs
Apr: 295.0k; 25 runs
Mar: 182.6k; 18 runs
Feb: 121.5k; 10 runs
Jan: 374.4k; 26 runs

2008 total: 3936.7k; 272 runs

That compares to 3253.8k in 277 runs last year, meaning my mileage per run went up about about 23%. My pace dropped too. I don't have last year's average pace, but this year I averaged 4:37/km.

Race-wise, also a pretty good year.

- 1st Marathon (PEC - October) - by definition a PR, and also a time (and a race) I was quite happy with.

- 10k PR (HBC Run for Canada - July). Although that time looks set to fall next time I race one of those.

- 1/2 Marathon race win (Hartwell Challenge - April) - slowest winning time in the history of the race!!!

Plus, a mis-measured 10k, (10.828k it turns out) just coming off an injury, where I got really disheartened passing the second "1k to go!" sign (Kumagaya Japan- Mar)

And my first X/C race in over 20 years at Sunnybrook Park in November, which was more for fun than anything else.

And to top it all off, I found this online community of great people with a similar obsession.

Here's to a great 2009!

[Jwolf]

December turned out to be lower than expected because of this small injury, but I'm ending on the upswing.

December: 195K plus about 3 hours of cross-training
Total runs: 22 Average pace: 6:15/km (mostly easy runs, some very slow on the icy roads, only three tempo runs)

Year end for 2008: 2650K

[cgraham]

December turned out to be lower than expected because of this small injury, but I'm ending on the upswing.

December: 195K plus about 3 hours of cross-training
Total runs: 22 Average pace: 6:15/km (mostly easy runs, some very slow on the icy roads, only three tempo runs)

Year end for 2008: 2650K

The snow probably didn't help you either...