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You forgot to mention the smog, and the cold and the slick roads.

None of those things bother me. The smog is overrated, the cold isn't a big deal if you dress for it and don't look at the temperature before going outside, and the slick roads are OK if you get out early enough and don't have to worry as much about cars. If those are my biggest problems, than I don't have much to complain about :-)

I didn't say you had to complain about them.

I would say my biggest problem with the cold isn't the cold, it's the heat. I always end up over dressing and over heat then I'm miserable. I do best in shorts and T's.

I get sick of people complaining about the cold all day at work. Its like - you live in UTAH people, what do you expect?!?

Yeah I agree though, shorts are the way to go. Much simpler. Even capri pants are a better option than having to wear so many layers on days like today.

It only dropped 9% because I stopped eating ice cream for a couple months! You should've picked up the slack.

It will be interesting to see how the lack of icecream consumption effects your performance. :)

Great blog posts the last couple of days Jake. I am definitely looking forward to the one on recovery as that is something I have definitely neglected over the winter.

Its definitely not a "lack" of consumption!

And your favorite flavor would be?

Cookies and Cream was the big winner in 2012, accounting for a staggering 24% of total ice cream eaten.!

Specifically, Kroger's Deluxe Light Fun Munch

Loved the detail of the annual report with all of the graphs - and the ice cream stats today made me grin.

Happy to see that your weight fluctuates a bit during the year (like mine). I think that graph would actual be close to what my year was like. I just always assumed the elites were pegged at a certain weight and stayed there year round.

The true elites might stay more consistent, but for mortal high-level hobby joggers like us, that's too hard!

My body seems to have a set point around 145 during the colder months of the year. When its hot outside, that set point seems to drop. My diet doesn't really change and my mileage is consistent, so its kind of interesting to see how it fluctuates.

Like Bret, I too was surprised with how your weight yoyoes. I could understand the odd pound here and there but the range was quite marked.

That said, there's no way you'd be able to do the quantity and quality of training that you do, if your nutrition wasn't close to being on the money.

Also, in any pictures I've seen of you, your BF looks as though it's probably around the 6% area, if not lower - although your eye-lids often look heavy:)

Maybe if you were to stop running you'd balloon. Best you only do two day tapers this year:)

Seriously, those stats and graphs and your attention to detail were enlightening and show how much you want all this - I'm sure that you'll get it too.

Jake, you remind me of me when I was younger. I kept stats on just about everything. It's a lot of fun.

I really don't obsess over the details. I wake up, jot down my heart rate, sleep hours, weight... it takes 2 minutes total... then pretty much forget it and go on w/ my day... I do it because I find it interesting over the long term, to look back at it all and play around in Excel :-)

Obviously I have some OCD tendencies, so this is actually a healthy outlet for me.

Most of my weight is in my face. As Andrea points out all the time, I have a "cartoon head"

I've found that my resting heart rate is a very good indicator of how well I am recovering, whether I have a cold coming on, etc. I get a lot of information from that first 60 seconds of the day. That knowledge alone makes all this record keeping completely worth it.

Sadly, I had to put ice cream back on the "no buy" list. I tried it for a while this summer, but my per day carton average was pretty high. Say, closer to 1 than to more sensible decimals that fall between it and 0 :)

haha, I know... when I round to the nearest number of cartons per day, I would really like the closest whole number to be "0" and not "1". I cannot lie and say that has currently been the case. But part of that is Andrea's fault!!!

WTH?!? Can you beautiful people explain to me how you get away with eating that much ice cream at all? I can't do that or I feel fatty patty! Dang

I burn a few calories with some of the running I do, here and there.

One time I ate an entire jar of peanut butter and half a jar of Nutella over the course of 10 days and lost 7 pounds during that time frame (John Muir Trail!)

I'm so disappointed that your not on top of the leader board for the week. Some 50+ year old guy is spanking you.

During the summer of 2010, I ate 4 dunford donuts every saturday, and brownies with frosting on Sundays. I was mega twig that summer!

Jon - a good FRB group resolution would be to keep me off the top of that page. Take turns. Crockett stepped up this week. It would be good for me as well in my personal life... Andrea doesn't believe my tall tales of schoolgirls in Africa running 150 miles a week, so it would be nice if I had some tangible evidence that people are running more than me all the time :-)

Jake- I think you staying off the top of the board is up to you more than us, as few of us are willing/able to regularly top 100 miles. Even the ultra guys don't do more than 120 miles the week of a hundred race (Davy's the exception with his 48 hr race).