In 2017, I ran 1,510 miles and cycled 131 miles.
My physical challenge for the year was running 200 miles in July! My
2017 Run To Feed The Hungry time was the best since 2014. Unlike 2016, I finished the year feeling strong.
In 2016, I ran 1,340 miles and cycled 474 miles. This is the fewest miles that I have run in a year in at least the last eleven years. I am still trying to figure out a physical challenge for 2017...
I struggled the last couple months of 2016. Between the new job, a couple of minor medical procedures, getting sick, settling Jack in Georgetown and a change in my routine from the last two and a half years, I lost a couple notches in my level of fitness. This was highlighted by
embarrassing times during the Run to Feed the Hungry.
For 2016, I am looking forward into 2017.
Like the American River 50 in 2007, I looking for a physical challenge in 2017. I am toying with the idea of a 100 to 120 mile hike along a section of the Pacific Coast Trail in Northern California [Boreal Ridge on Highway 80 to Chester on Highway 36].
In 2015, I ran 1,604 miles and cycled 401 miles. My goal was to work out with weighs 52 times this year; I have failed over the last three years at my strength training goal.
In 2014, I ran 1,583 miles and cycled 886 miles.
I averaged 30.4 miles running and 17.0 miles cycling every week! My goal was to restart a sit-up, push-up and light routine that I have done in the past. I failed in this goal.
In 2013, I ran 1,521 miles and cycled 1,092 miles. My goal for 2013 was to best both the running and the cycling totals. I accomplished the running goal. Additionally, I was going to try and lift at least 48 times (4 times a month) at Arden Hills. I failed in this goal.
In 2012, my goal was to start cross-training.
I ran and hiked 1,441 miles. This included two full weeks off during the trip to Italy in the summer. Additionally, I cycled 1,133 miles. Most of this cycling was done on a stationary bike.
I covered 1,016 miles virtually biking across America.
In 2011,
I ran 1,763 miles. This seems impossible in a year that
I took almost nine weeks of vacation!
In 2010,
I ran 1,700 miles. This included two full weeks off during the trip to Spain in the summer.
In 2009, I ran 1,832 miles.
In 2008,
I ran more than 1,925 miles!
In 2007,
I ran 1,721 miles. This included successfully
completing the American River 50.
In 2006,
I ran slightly less than 1,680 miles.
In 2005,
I ran slightly less than 1,630 miles.
On
our trip to Florida in Summer of 2004, I started to play with the idea of running the American River 50 in April of 2007. I committed myself and started to train.