5 miles. EZ pace. Overcast, 32F. One mile boardwalk loops at the nature preserve. Pretty much a crap run for the first 4.8 miles. Oh well, I was due one of those runs.

WT 51.7 miles

11 miles / 8:15 avg. Sun, 33F (shorts weather!). From work and about.

Splits: 8:55, 8:12, 8:02, 8:03, 8:09, 8:27, 8:10, 8:19, 8:08, 8:05, 8:11

WT 52.7 miles

6 miles / 9:24 avg. Overcast, 40F. From work. Instead of taking the day off, I opted for super easy running instead. Hopefully I can keep the 6 day weeks  going again.

WT 48.1 miles

15 miles / 8:27 avg. Commute run home. Overcast, 36F.

WT 59 miles

Peaceful, quiet, slow Sunday. Food shopping, chores around the house and yard. Took the dogs for a short hike in the hills and got out of the inversion for a bit. It's sunny and warm up there.

10 miles / 8:14 avg. From work. A little later start than usual. Partly sunny, 40F. 

Splits: 8:39, 8:12, 8:09, 8:21, 8:23, 8:21, 8:06, 8:24, 7:52, 7:53.

WT 57 miles

Easy 6 miles. Bluff trail. Sunny, 43F.

WT 53 miles

11.3 miles / 8:38 avg. From work. Overcast, 36F. 

Just an average run on an average day by a slightly slower than average mid-pack runner.

WT 59.3 miles

9.4 / 8:49 avg. From work. Overcast, 40F. It's like someone's putting a quarter in the jukebox and selecting "Perfect Running Weather" day, after day, after day.

WT 57.7 miles

Nada today.

9.3 miles / EZ    Commute run in to work. Hard to believe it's December. Felt like Spring out there this morning. Gotta run home later.

(4 1/2 hour break, during which I eat a bowl of oatmeal, 3 slices of pepperoni  pizza, and a shot of Emergen-c right before the run back.)

10.3 miles / 8:52 avg. (better than this morning). Running in shorts and short sleeves in mid December...yeah...

WT 56.3 miles

4.2 miles of recovery on the fire break road with the young' un / 10:32 avg.

On today's run I thought about how delusional it probably is of me to think I could run a 100 miler like the Wasatch 100. I'm thinking I'll give it another year and focus on completing another 50k, and perhaps try a 50 miler and 100k in 2011. If training goes really well this summer, I might consider running the Pony Express 100 miler in the fall. A relatively flat course. But yeah, I need more miles behind me, more strength, and more experience before tackling the mountain 100 milers. Fortunately I live in a place where I can run from my door and onto the Wasatch 100 course most of the year. I hope to take advantage of this often.

MT101 performance review: GRIPPY.

WT 60.5 miles

Easy 8. Form work. Mostly cloudy, 46F. Felt like Summer.

WT 58.5 miles

11.2 miles / 8:52 avg. From work. Overcast, 43F.

A veritable ugh-o-rama today.

WT 63.7 miles

12.2 miles / 8:46 avg. Bluff trail. Sunny, 34F. Started slow but managed MP for the last 3 miles.

WT 64.6 miles

10 miles / 8:16 avg. On the LPT after work. Sun, 30F.

Splits: 8:44, 8:10, 8:22, 8:29, 8:44, 8:20, 7:59, 8:10, 8:00, 7:39

WT 65.2 miles

5 miles of rest / 9:31 avg. From work. Overcast, 25F (still shorts weather around here!).

My first 70 mile week in a while. Of course, it took running all 7 days to do it, but still...

WT 70.2 miles

16 miles. Commute run home after a short day at work. Overcast, a little sun here and there, a light mist/drizzle now and then, lots of slush afoot, 35+ degrees. Perfect. 8:55 avg.

This week I Favred a couple of old pairs of speedstar 3's.  They performed well. Very satisfying to know I can still use them considering they were mere moments from being tossed in the dog toy bin last Spring.

WT (an ominous) 66.6 miles

Very busy today so I decided to just not sweat the run and take a SECOND day in a row off.  My body thanks me.

10.4 miles / 8:21 avg. From work. Overcast, light wet snow for most of the run, 33F. 

Splits: 8:44, 8:41, 8:19, 8:35, 8:16, 8:11, 8:07, 8:14, 8:12, 8:24, + .4 mi. @ 8:02 pace.

WT 53.6 miles

10.2 miles / 8:29 avg. From work. Overcast, some light rain, 39F.

Splits: 8:43, 8:25, 8:14, 8:28, 8:36, 8:37, 8:24, 8:34, 8:29, 8:16

WT 51.6 miles

"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."

10 miles / 8:20 From work. Overcast 37F.

Splits: 9:07, 8:35, 8:46, 8:12, 8:23, 8:03, 8:23, 8:06, 7:57, 7:53

WT 51.6 miles

6 miles / 8:06 avg. From work. Overcast, 35F.

Splits: 8:31, 7:54, 8:21, 8:06, 7:54, 7:49

WT 52.6 miles

Merry Christmas to all the Merry Fast Running Bloggers!

8.5 miles / 8:46 avg. Nice and easy from home post Christmas feeding frenzy funk run. Started out in light snowfall which grew in intensity as the run progressed. 

WT 45.1 miles

8.2 miles / 8:42 avg. Easy progression run starting with a 9:30 mile and finishing with 8:08 for the eighth mile. Mostly sun, 33F.

WT 53.3 miles

13.7 miles / 8:50 avg. Commute run home. Overcast, 33F. Easy today as I'm just getting miles this week, and I've got this nagging neck/shoulder pain thing the last couple of days. Kind of feels like I slept on it wrong or something.

WT 56.6 miles

6 miles / exquisitely easy. From work. Rain/snow, 36F. WINDY

WT 52.3 miles

Nay.

11 miles / 8:44 avg. Bluff trail. 15F, North wind, faux sun. Easy pace, good negative split. Low level cold that I've been under for the last three days is all but gone (thanks Airborne?).

WT 47.4 miles

Happy New Year!

                                    Year in Summary - 2010

 2009's totals in parenthesis

86 days with no running    (57)

Total miles =                    2,578.74 (2,654.15) 

# of runs =                       290 (331)

# of days run                    279 (308)

# of doubles                     11 (23)

Avg. miles per run            8.89 (8.02)

Avg. miles per day run      9.24 (8.62)

# of TM runs                    22 (32)

# of TM miles                   139.95 (194.05)

Avg. miles per TM run      6.36 (6.06) 

Biggest month                    247.05, March (260.95, April)

Most miles in one week period - Non blogular:

70.2  4/16 - 4/22 and 12/11 - 12/17  (81.2, August)

All within the Sun - Sat blog week format:

31 (17) weeks less than 50 miles

12 (21) weeks between 50 - 60 miles

9 (10) weeks between 60 - 70 miles

One 50k (October)

One marathon (PR - May)

One half marathon (PR - April)

One 5k (PR - July)

This year went great for me. I set my mileage goal at 2,500, which was less than what I had run in 2009, because I felt so wiped out in 2009 (my first full year of consistent running). I ended up running only 75 miles less this year than last, but I never felt the overwhelming fatigue that I did in 2009. This tells me that I'm stronger, my mileage base is good, not too many miles, but enough to improve on as evidenced by my PR's this year. Also, 2010's miles were spread out more evenly. I feel confident that I can run 3,000 miles in 2011 without hurting myself, though I expect it to be challenging in terms of time commitment and  keeping a higher mileage week. I'm look forward to enjoying some more over-long training runs in 2011 as I continue the delusion that I'll be able to run a 100 miler someday.