Since it’s the end of the year and I love random stats and bullet-ed lists, and it seems like the thing to do, here is my year in workouts (through today):
In 2012, I…
Ran: 1,197 miles
Biked: 1,440 miles
Swam: 75,400 yards (none of which have been since Sept. 30)
I raced:
- two marathons (also my only two marathons ever)
- a 5K
- a random 4-mile race
- a handicapped 7-mile trail race that I won
- a handicapped 7.5-mile trail race that I definitely did not win
- a 12K
- a road mile
- an 800m on the track
- two cross-country races
- a 4.5-mile relay
- an Olympic-distance triathlon
- a sprint triathlon
- an XTERRA triathlon
- Trans-Tahoe swim relay
- and I did the Marin Century – but let’s not pretend Century rides are races
- oh, and a Tough Mudder
Things I ruled out as ‘my sport:’
- XTERRA
- open water swimming
For a total training volume of: 318 hours. That’s more than 100 hours less than I’ve put in any year since 2007 or so, but actually more races than any of those years probably, since I wasn’t focused and peaking performance and shit. It’s interesting that lots of my results were about the same and some were better (and some would have been worse, if I had raced a half-Ironman this year).
The most I trained was in August, when I actually cracked 40 hours for the month — though that included the shitshow of me trying to finish the Marin Century in time to make it to a wedding. The least I trained (not counting October, when I think racing the Chicago Marathon was actually most of my total monthly volume) was last January, when I counted Tough Mudder as a long run. Hah.
You know it’s not a triathlon year when running mileage nearly equals biking mileage.
And, to show I’m multi-layered and stuff, this is also the list of books I’ve read this year, though it’s not a complete list because I only started keeping track in June and I couldn’t remember everything from earlier. And yes, I read a lot of teen dystopian future novels.
Books I read in 2012:
- Life of Pi — Yann Martel
- *A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again — David Foster Wallace (best thing I’ve read. ever.)
- Wild: from Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail — Cheryl Strayed
- Next — Michael Crichton
- This is How You Lose Her — Junot Diaz
- *The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France — Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle
- While Mortals Sleep — Kurt Vonnegut
- *Behind the Beautiful Forevers — Katherine Boo
- The Oracle of Stamboul — Michael David Lukas
- Shadow of Night — Deborah Harkness
- *The Art of Fielding — Chad Harbach
- Off Balance: A Memoir — Dominique Moceanu
- A Game of Thrones — George R.R. Martin
- The Maze Runner — James Dashner
- Insurgent — Veronica Roth
- Divergent — Veronica Roth
- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother — Amy Chua
- Pirate Latitudes — Michael Crichton
- Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me? — Mindy Kaling
- Bond Girl — Erin Duffy
- The Girl Who Played Go — Shan Sa
- A Question of Attraction — David Nicholls
- *The Tiger’s Wife — Tea Obrecht
- Swamplandia! — Karen Russell
*means you should definitely read this
Great list! I’m glad I’m not alone in the love of teen dystopian fiction 🙂
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