Earlier today one of the St Francis runners asked me how long I’d been writing my blog and it wasn’t until I was in the shower that I actually thought about it and realised that I had missed its birthday this week! It’s not the only birthday I’ve managed to miss this year either so my apologies all round!
Some hastily thrown-together stats show that I’ve had a somewhat lazy year… a teacher like Dai Thomas (who helped me start this blog in the first place) might mark me down as ‘could do better’!
Following the format from previous years the numbers are as follows:
Number of posts: 66 (83 in year 4, 110 in year 3, 102 in year 2, 156 in year 1 – the numbers below follow this format too). The original aim of the blog was to force me to run and to write in a virtuous, self-supporting circle, but other projects have been taking my attention this year and both body and mind have suffered as a result.
Number of runs: 41 (72, 92, 63, 67) although this doesn’t include the two more involved events, namely the informal Tour du Mont Blanc with Daren last year and the Eye-to-Eye (London Eye to Brighton Eye).
Mileage: 292 (653, 726, 538, 512)… this is the lowest yet, even if I added 108 miles for the TMB and 47 miles completed in the Eye-to-Eye
Hours spent running: 47 (113, 113, 84, 87)… excluding 53 walking hours for TMB (excluding breaks and overnights) and 13-odd for the Eye-to-Eye. Actually, these numbers make me feel a little better, although it seems odd to have spent more time on the TMB than running for the whole of the rest of the year!
Average run: 7.1 miles in 1.10 (9.4 in 1.34, 7.89 in 1.24, 8.14 in 1.20, 8.07 in 1.31).
Average speed: 6.1mph (5.8, 6.38, 6.05, 6.15) or 3.9mph including the longer events
Average minutes per mile: 10.4 (9.4, 9.9, 9.65) Slower than a slow thing!
Worst month distance: 6 in March 12 (31.6 in December 2010, 10.4 May 10, 13.6 Jan 09, 22.3 Feb 08).
Best month distance: 50 in Jan 2012 (68 miles in Jan 2011, 157 in March 10, 62 Apr 09, 68 Nov 07), whilst the average monthly mileage was 24 (52, 61, 40 and 44)
Total mileage to date since start of blog: 2724 miles (excluding the aforementioned 155 miles)
Time spent running since start of blog: 447 hours (excluding the aforementioned 66 hours)
Visitors according to Google Analytics: 1504 (Clustermaps: 1722, 1479, 1496, 2906 for year 1, the first year being higher as a by-product of my work with Qype.com).
I forgot to mention (by way of a vague token excuse) that a number of my posts this year involved cross training, including 8 visits to a circuit training class and 5 high intensity training sessions. Despite the fact that this latter involved a mere 5 minutes of exercise in total, it was actually more exhausting than anything else here!
The best part of running is doing so with friends and strangers alike and here’s to yet another sociable year of it!
Finally, my thanks to all that have stopped by at FosterRuns.com during five years of blogging! FIVE years!