Showing posts with label New Year's Eve 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Year's Eve 2011. Show all posts

Saturday, December 31, 2011

New Year's By the Numbers

It's New Year's Eve!! I don't tend to get terribly caught up in looking-forward-looking-back on New Year's Eve ... frankly, I do enough of that daily to make it a big project on the last day of the year ('little late then anyway, huh?)! However, I do have a little rundown as an ode to my running adventures. Here we go ...

Number of:

mornings I did not want to get up to run: Most of them
times I felt awesome after a run: Most of them
miles of my shortest run of the year: 2
miles of my longest run of the year: 13.1
times I seriously considered giving up on running altogether: 1
weeks it took me to rebound from that slump: 10
bugs that flew in my mouth while running: 1
official registered runs in which I participated: 7
cents I found during official runs: 28
registered runs I ran while pretty sick: 1
runs on which Elly was annoying: A lot of them
runs where I brought Elly and wish I hadn't: None of them
parked cars into which Elly ran herself on a run: None (that was 2010)
times I've been deeply grateful for the support I have around me: Every. Single. Day.

And, one for which I am very pleased:

Estimated miles run in 2011: 650

That's a pretty good list of stats! Look for some of them to be recorded ongoing at the top of the blog during 2012!

You'll be seeing a lot of mileage racked up ... going solo, with the dog, with the family ... mixing it up is always good! January begins the road to April's Half Marathon, and I can't wait to see what else! I have a handful of goals rolling around in my head, and I'll get them figured out in due time. In the meantime, congratulations to Pit Crew #3 who hit his during-break mileage goal today!
Yeah!!! 40.1 intentional miles logged for Pit Crew #3 since October!
That's awesome ... more awesome is he has the same support
surrounding him that I do! That's cool because I know how good
that is! (What's wrong with Elly? It's windy as heck out there, and
she's not one to force her eyes open for a picture ... I didn't take
her on a walk this morning when she asked to go, so she's not
going to comply with a wind-in-her-eyes picture!)
 Celebrate your year today!! I look forward to a new year ... let's all make it what we want it to be!!