It’s that time… when not only is there an ended month to look at the numbers from, but also an ended year!
I’ll start off the good news with my December GPS totals (bike and run only for now, as the swim ones are not in the GPS log). This includes all my biking and running last month:
12/2006
activity | miles | total time | elevation gain | avg speed/pace |
road biking | 443.16 miles | 31:51:32 | 22,950 ft | 13.2 mph |
street running | 49.09 | 8:56:51 | 2900 ft | 10:53 pace |
trail running | 11.89 | 2:31:53 | 3400 ft | 12:48 pace |
My biggest pre-12/06 road bike month ever? 6/06 426.74 miles. And next biggest month was 11/06 with 398.75 road miles (which also had 51.77 miles of mtn biking). So not the biggest bike month ever, but the biggest road one!
And now for 2006!
activity | miles | total time | elevation gain | avg speed/pace |
road biking | 3,804.85 | 275:51:56 | 197,428 ft | 14.0 mph |
mountain biking* | 267.86 | 35:41:17 | 30,343 | 8.1 mph |
street running | 585.79 | 106:56:47 | 35,618 ft | 10:36 pace |
trail running* | 20.12 | 4:19:41 | 4,373 | 12:50 pace |
track running | 12.28 | 2:07:08 | 1055 | 10:55 pace |
* these don’t include adventure races since GPS is not allowed at them.
And let’s compare that to 2005:
activity | miles | total time | elevation gain | avg speed/pace |
road biking | 1,372.21 | 114:29:19 | 75,565 ft | 12.9 mph |
mountain biking* | 153.17 | 22:25:12 | 18,746 ft | 9.0 mph |
street running | 549.11 | 93:15:34 | 70,787 ft | 9:48 pace |
trail running* | 124.72 | 22:13:48 | 24,276 ft | 10:34 pace |
track running | 22.28 | 3:25:05 | 2270 ft | 9:13 pace |
Things I learn from these numbers:
- I need to run more hills and not do only steady longer runs (like I did in much of 2006). It doesn’t work for me, and my running speed suffered. Yes, there was also an injury that contributed to that, but I need more elevation in training runs.
- I almost tripled my road biking! And increased my avg speed by a decent amount! Wooooo! However, after being a bit surprised how low the average speed is, I looked at that is total, not moving speed. So it counts rest stops on group rides, lights, etc. At some point I hope to get the moving averages, but it will be a bit so I figured I’d just post this for now.
- I counted more things as trail running in 05 than in 06, when it had to be at least somewhat technical or hilly or harder for being loose, etc in order to count. In 05 I also counted a few commutes on a mtn bike as mtn biking, so that brought up the average speed there.
That’s great! You are doing so well. You are going to kick some butt this year. 🙂
Wow some really impresive numbers there. Quite the distances you covered. I haven’t tabulated my distances yet but then agan I was pretty much just doing biking, only started to do running this November.
2007 is going to be a great year, so much potential.
Have fun.