2017 Totals

Yearly Totals

Here are my yearly training totals. 

This first graph shows the hour comparisons for the past three years.  Swimming and strength training went up a bit, while running, biking increased a lot.  Most of my biking is done inside on the trainer, and most of my running is done outside.

This second graph is similar to the first, but it shows mile comparisons.  I don't care about my trainer miles, because the numbers are silly business. Garmin has me at about 1200 miles for trainer and bike miles combined last year.

The next graph shows how my time was split for 2016. This is skewed a little towards running do to the October marathon, but I probably do need to spend more time on the bike this year.

My average swim times went up in the pool this year and down in the open water.  Last year my pool average was 2:08 per 100 yards and my open water average was 1:43 per 100 yards.  I'm sure some of the pool improvement is due to swimming in jammers as opposed to swim trunks, but a little bit of that is probably genuine improvement. The slower open water times are due to the slow swims at the 70.3 races.

Liberty:  1:55 per 100 yards
Toughman:  2:03 per 100 yards (no wetsuit)

Both swims were disappointing, but near the field average.

The biking breakdown is only for hours as stated previously. Most of the YMCA stationary bike hours took place after triathlon season when I was marathon training.  My road average went up to 17.7 mph. In 2014 it was 16.3 mph, and in 2015 it was 17.2 mph.

This graph is kinda fun.  It turns out (completely unplanned) that my long run mileage is nearly identical to my sort run mileage for outside runs.  My overall average pace took a big hit.  The previous two years I averaged around 9:40 per mile, but the overall this year was about 10:20 per mile.  I trained a lot for long, slow runs runs this year, so the drop makes sense. Still a downer.

2015 Totals

Turkey Trot 5K Recap

Turkey Trot 5K/10K

Fergus Falls 11/15/14

In late August, I signed up for the 5K Turkey Trot with my sister.  She had won the 6 race series in her area, and the award was going to be presented after the Fergus Falls Turkey Trot in November.  My sis is pretty awesome, and naturally she is my hero.

I was in rough shape.  In the two weeks after Surf the Murph, I had tried three runs, and I had not been able to get to two miles on any of them.  I took the week before the race completely off.  

It snowed the week before the race.  The streets/sidewalks had a lot of hard pack snow and some ice on them.  It was going to be a slow cautious race for a couple reasons.

My nephew also wanted to run, so we all also signed up for the one mile run before the 5K race.

My knee didn't feel too bad on the one mile run. Maybe taking it easy for a couple weeks was going to do the trick.  We ran together for the first half mile. After that, my nephew took off in a quest for the podium.  He passed third place with about 4 blocks to go, and he held on to take the bronze position.  I ran about a nine minute mile; I felt pretty good and optimistic.

My nephew wasn't going to run the 5K.  He found a warm spot to wait it out in the school, and my sis and I went to line up for the 5K.  It was in the teens but there was nearly no wind.  It was reasonable weather for a run, but the footing made it a pretty silly idea.

At the go signal, my first step tweaked my knee.  I started off slow and tried to loosen it up.  It didn't help; it was the same pain on the side of my knee, and it felt like I had a bruise behind my kneecap. A mile into the run, I knew this was going to be the last run of the year.

I stuck it out with a time of 29:00.  My knee felt a little better in the third mile, but I was doing more harm than good.  Around the last corner, I decided to catch the lady in front of me.  She was about a block ahead of me, so I sprinted as best I could (idiot) and caught up.  It seemed like a dick move to pass right at the line, so I pulled up and finished one second behind her.

So that's it; I'm probably done running for the year.  I'm definitely out for the half marathon in a couple weeks.  It's been a good year.  I did a few 5K races, one 10K, two sprint triathlons and one long trail run.

Below are my totals since I signed up for the Lake Marion Sprint Triathlon in February.

Running
Total:                   340 miles
Average length:  3.3 miles
Average Pace:     9:39

Biking
Total Road:          182 miles
Average Length:  11.3 miles
Average Speed:    16 mph    
Total Stationary:  13:27 hours
Avg. Stationary:   33 minutes

Swimming
Total:         14.6 miles
Average:    0.54 miles

Workouts
Total:        11:15 hours
Average:   29 minutes

Me with my sis and nephew
before the 1 mile run.