In 2024, in spite of two major trips (
Viking Homelands and
Crossroads of the Adriatic) and two December surgeries, I ended up running, hiking and walking 1,340 miles plus covering 1,510 miles on the Peloton bike. While the running, hiking and walking mileage was down slightly from 2023, the biking mileage was up. While I covered more than 1,300 miles each of the last five years, I think that it will be difficult to reach this level in 2025. As a rule, I am not running two days in a row at this point. I am alternating between running and biking. I view the Run to Feed the Hungry as a measure of my fitness;
I was happy with time this year. I did 303 Peloton strength classes last year. This includes upper body and core; it is an average of almost six (5.8) times a week. I played golf 36 times last year! A little more than twenty years ago, I set a goal of running 50 miles when I turned 50. God willing, my long term goal is doing the 490 mile Camino Francés in the September of 2027 when I am 70.
In 2023, in spite of two major trips and
a year-end surgery, I ended up running, hiking and walking 1,375 miles plus covering 1,448 miles on the Peloton bike. Both results are up from 2022. The Hadrian's Wall hike helped boost the mileage.
Recognizing that I can't carry the kind of speed and distance running that I did fifteen years ago, I continue to morph my daily running routine. After missing a year,
I ran the Run to Feed the Hungry. I did 254 Peloton strength classes last year. This includes upper body and core; it is an average of almost five (4.9) times a week. I am very happy with how I have been able to incorporate strength workouts into my daily routine. I played golf eighteen times last year. My goal for 2024 is to add more stretching and mobility workouts, including yoga.
In 2022, I ended up running, hiking and walking 1,318 miles plus covering 1,418 miles on the Peloton bike. Both results are down from 2020 and 2021. I have finally started to incorporate strength training into regular routine; I did 212 Peloton strength classes last year. This includes upper body and core and is an average of more than four (4.1) days a week. I played golf seventeen times last year. I did 21 Peloton Yoga classes.
I wrote a separate post on how my body feels [Not 28 Anymore]. With two major trips planned for 2023, it is going to be very difficult to maintain the running and biking mileage.
I finished 2021 more dinged up than any year in recent memory. My heel has brothered me since the
Run to Feed the Hungry, I
twisted my knee playing golf and then
aggravated my hip trying to work myself back in shape after twisting my knee. Nevertheless, last year, I ended running, hiking and walking 1,358 miles plus covering 1,628 miles on the bike. Both of the results are up slightly from 2020. Building on the rhythm, I did 141 Peloton strength classes; this is up substantially from 2020. Incredibly, I played golf nineteen times. My main two goals for 2022 are even more Peloton strength classes combined with some yoga classes.
In 2020, my training routine changed radically in March when we started working from home. I ended up running, hiking and walking 1,339 miles; this is 25.7 miles a week. The difference was I almost doubled my miles on the Peloton bike. I covered 1,606 miles on the bike. The most miles I ever did on the old bike was 1,092 in 2013. Additionally, I did sixty-one Peleton weight classes; I am finally getting into a rhythm that includes a regular strength workout. My goal for 2021 is to double down on the strength classes and add a few more yoga classes. I only did six yoga classes in 2020. One side note, we played golf twelve times last year. This probably more golf than I have played in any year since the early 1980s when Nooter and Wallen were still living in Sacramento.
In 2019, I ran, hiked and walked 1,285 miles. This is fewest miles that I have logged in more than fifteen years. It is a little deceiving; I added 871 miles on the Peloton Bike. This is the most miles I have done on a bike since 2014. I have been trying to focus on a broader range of activities. To this end,
I topped the move goal (900 calories) on my apple watch for 155 straight days in the last half to the year. I also did 761 push-ups and weights as part of the Peloton bike work-out 30 times. I am still struggling to incorporate a strength work-out into my regular routine... My goal for 2020 is to run and cycle more miles and do more push-ups and weight work-outs than 2019!
In 2018, I ran 1,605 miles and cycled 91 miles. My goal for the year was to average 30 miles a week. I ended up averaging 30.8 miles per week. It was the most miles that I have run in a year since 2011. In addition to the mileage goal, I focused on my weekly steps total. My goal was 140,000 steps a week. Essentially, I was running 30 plus miles a week and walking 30 plus miles a week. Finally, I finished the year with a string of more than 70 days meeting the move goal on my Apple watch (900 active calories). Combined all of this kept my weight in a nice range for last half of the year. I am switching my goals for 2019. With the purchase of the Peloton bike as a present for our anniversary, I am going to try to do more 1,000 miles on the bike in 2019. I have also started to do push-ups again; my goal is 3,000 push-ups in 2019.
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 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. 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.
Friday night, Sharon and I watched Nickel Boys. With the Oscar show on Sunday night, we are trying to finish filling out the dance card. The movie got two nominations at the 97th Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
