Week 52
Another year has come and gone! As you’ll recall, last year I pulled out all the stops to hit my goal of 1000km. This year I was aiming for 1100km, and for the first half of the year I was on track to surpass that by far. Unfortunately the second half of the year was a different story. I suffered a couple injuries (rolling my left ankle repeatedly) and then I got sidelined by a virus and cough for several weeks. It sucks that I didn’t quite get to 1100, but I’m pretty proud regardless. The final numbers:
Dec. 26: 8.86km
Dec. 28: 6.86km
Dec. 30: 8.02km (cycling)
Dec. 31: 5.16km
Total this week: 20.88km (13.05mi)
Total in 2011: 1043.77km (652mi) – 4% increase from 2010
Goals for 2012: I’m now training in earnest for the July 1 Gold Coast Marathon. I’d love to be able to finish it in 5:30. I’d also like to run the Blackmore’s Half-Marathon next September and finish it in under 2:30. I’d like to start my podcast up again. (Anybody want to contribute or co-host?) And I’d like to comment more on DailyMile and Fitocracy to thank everyone who’s given me such encouragement this year.
Happy to contribute to the podcast depending on what you’re after. I’ve enjoyed your updates throughout the year and this year I’m doing my own 1000km challenge with a few friends. Did you use software to track yours on or anyone else’s totals throughout the year?
Any idea how I can get an invite to Fitocracy? I submitted a request months and months ago but I haven’t got one yet.
I use RunKeeper to track my runs, and then each week I just manually total it up.
I didn’t realise Fitocracy was still closed. I got in via an invite code from Metafilter. It appears I have ten invites myself to give out, so I just sent you one! 🙂
Thank you for the invite. I’ll keep an eye out for you on there.