Year In Running (2013)

Well, here is another year end update regarding my training for the past year.  My focus has always been running mostly because I'm such a shitty runner.  Hey, if you aren't good at something, you gotta work at it, right?  That's what I do and I'm still not a better runner, but I'll keep trying.  Maybe one day something magical will happen.  I ran a total of 426 miles this year which is 146 fewer than last year.  If you look at those absolute numbers, yes, I did drop off substantially.  However, I also got hurt this year and didn't run at all for about 3 months.  I averaged 8.2 miles per week for the entire year but if you exclude those 3 months where I was injured, I averaged 10.9 miles per week.  That's not that bad and I'm fairly happy with that.  Even with that, it took over 2 months to get back to full time running again.  So, when I have been running, it was pretty good.

I did get back into triathlons this year but my heart really wasn't into it.  I'll try it again this year but if I have another year where it isn't that enjoyable to me, I may be done with triathlons for good.  I do enjoy running, I enjoy biking, and I enjoy swimming, but the level of persistent training is what got to me.  I did have a pretty good time at the few races that I did.

Working with my personal trainer has been great and I've never been stronger.  I love feeling this way.  I'm not strong in the traditional sense where I can bench 225 pounds ten times but I'm just overall fit.

I checked out my goals for 2013 and my goals for 2014 are pretty much the same.

1) 178 and maintain it.  This one may change because my muscle mass has increased so much over the last year.
2) Get back into triathlons.
3) Sub 45 10k.
4) Keep up the motivation.
5) 11 pull ups.

Let's kick ass together, 2014.

2013 running miles: 426 miles