Friday, May 27, 2011

Reflections on my first 20,000 miles

Earlier this week I logged my 20,000th mile of running.  Here are some thoughts, notes and numbers looking back on a great run, if you pardon the pun.

First day of running logged: February 19th, 2003
Miles Run that day: 1.3
Air temperature that day: 17 degrees

Number of days since then: 3016 (100 months)
Number of days running since then: 2477 (539 days of rest)

Favorite Run Locations: San Diego, Boston, Sydney, AT, PCT, Glacier Park
Least Favorite Run Locations: Wichita, Key West

Favorite Races: Chattanooga Mountains Stage Race, Mountain Mist, Xterra Monte Sano 15km, Beer Belly Two, CIM, Dick Lytie 1/2 marathon, Strolling Jim, Boston Marathon, Stump Jump 50km
Least Favorite Races: (mostly course related, no offense to the RD's): Alabama A&M, Cookie dash, Eurocross

Days Run to reach first 10,000 Miles: 1986 or 5.03 miles per day
Days Run to reach last 10,000 Miles:  1029 or 9.72 miles per day

Most Rivers Swam Across During a race: 1

Pairs of shoes worn: 63
Average miles worn per pair of shoes: 295
Most Miles on pair of shoes: 1193.77 (2005 Nike Air Pegasus)

Number of Race DNF's: 6 (RFH50km 3 times, Eurocross 8km, Monte Sano 15km, Delano park 50M)

Most Miles in Month: 412 (October 2008)
Fewest Miles in Month: 7.1 (April 2003)
Average Miles per month total: 200.22 (6.6 miles per day)

Most Hours Run per Month: 83 (May 2010 for Pinhoti)

States Run In: 33 (AL, AZ, CA, Co, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, KS, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NH, NV, NY, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI)
States Yet to Run in: 17 (AK, AR, HI, ID, IN, KY, ME, ND, NE, NJ, NM, OH, OK, RI, SD, WV, WY)
Countries Run in: 5 (US, Mexico, Costa Rica, Canada, Autralia)

Average Pace for 20,000 miles: 8:39 minutes / mile

Oddest Place Run: 44 laps around the inside of my house (44 laps = 1 mile), inside garage at WPS in the middle of winter, inside a convention center, ATL airport

Longest Running Streak: 366 days (no rest all of 2009)
Days of rest from May 2008 - December 2009: 6
How Did I start 2010?  With a day of rest

Proudest Moment: Qualifying for Boston Marathon at Green Bay marathon in 2007 with my parents there
Second Proudest Moment: Running first Boston Marathon in 2008 with my parents there
Third Proudest Moment: 1st career race win at Lake Antoine Classic 5 miler (28:01) in career race #100 with my parents there.

Number of Race Victories since first win (last 100 races): 22

Largest Race Run: 2006 Chicago Marathon (40,000)
Smallest Race Run: 2010 Doxa 5km (15 and that may be high)

Number of races by popular distance (202 total)
5km - 65
10km - 21
1/2M - 16
26.2 - 14
Ultra - 19
Other - 67

Yearly Stats


YearRest DaysMilesMiles / DayHoursHours / DayRacesMiles RacedMiles / race
2003
129
525.57
1.67
67:18
0:12:49
8
20.54
2.57
2004
80
1205.38
3.29
141:19
0:23:10
16
47.50
2.97
2005
70
1872.71
5.13
250:46
0:41:13
15
110.22
7.35
2006
111
1867.15
5.12
242:01
0:39:47
13
147.98
11.38
2007
62
2668.82
7.31
388:24
1:03:51
20
242.97
12.15
2008
17
3601.58
9.84
506:35
1:23:03
40
290.49
7.26
2009
0
3857.16
10.57
581:15
1:35:33
38
450.88
11.87
2010
43
3233.46
8.86
540:56
1:28:55
39
303.78
7.79
2011
18
1190.66
8.44
182:08
1:17:30
13
169.38
13.03


Most Miles in Number of Days

DaysMilesPer Day AveStart DateEnd Date
1 Day
52.400
52.400
11/7/2009
11/7/2009
2 Days
101.000
50.500
5/1/2010
5/2/2010
3 Days
136.100
45.367
5/1/2010
5/3/2010
4 Days
161.100
40.275
5/1/2010
5/4/2010
5 Days
171.200
34.240
5/1/2010
5/5/2010
6 Days
173.200
28.867
5/1/2010
5/6/2010
7 Days
198.700
28.386
5/1/2010
5/7/2010
14 Days
227.807
16.272
4/24/2010
5/7/2010
21 Days
308.357
14.684
6/14/2009
7/4/2009
30 Days
424.553
14.152
10/4/2008
11/2/2008
183 Days
2133.769
11.660
9/13/2008
3/14/2009
365 Days
4116.954
11.279
9/21/2008
9/20/2009