Dawn - Sometimes An Ultrarunner

Dawn - Sometimes An Ultrarunner

January 5, 2017

Yearly Training Totals...and can I ever get to 1000 miles of running?

If I am ever to prove that I am a somewhat obsessive Type A personality, it will be in the fact that I have kept track of every workout I've done since 2004.   This happened to be the year that I finally got my iron-deficiency anemia under control and allowed me to exercise without feeling like I was going to pass out and die.

More than that, my workout logs tell me a lot about where I've been, what I've done, and what I've loved.  They track the progression from my first short triathlon to tackling an Ironman, from a first marathon to doing 16 in one calendar year.   They show the change from swimming to kayaking as I switched to Adventure Racing, and then back to hiking when gearing up for the Red Bull X-Alps.  

Key Events
2004* My first Triathlon
2005 My first Marathon (moved to Germany)
2006 My first Ultramarathon
2007 Completed 17 Marathons
2008 Completed 2 Ironman Triathlons
2009* Traveled around the world…not much exercise tho
2010 My first Adventure Race (moved to England)
2011 Completed 4 day Stage Race across England
2012 Completed 99 hour Expedition Adventure Race
2013* (Moved to Utah)
2014 Paragliding trumped everything
2015 Red Bull X-Alps
2016 RAGBRAI and the John Muir Trail
2017 ???


Dawn's Yearly Distance Totals (in Miles)  

*Partial Information for these years
        Bike     Run    Swim   Walk
Weight
     Kayak Grand Total
2004* 671 112 15 42     840*
2005 618 334 15 299 14         1280
2006 552 479 7 615 79    1733
2007 599 591 21 637 169    2016
2008 2807 551 75 86 20    3539
2009* 652 91 7 45 16    809*
2010 554 608 13 497 132        1804
2011 1522 833 7 459 120        126    3067
2012 1216 621 3 602 85        125    2651
2013* 95 123 186 91            7    501*
2014 111 479 325 161          20    1095
2015 360 291 941 58    1649
2016 1512 367 484 43          11    2417



Dawn's Yearly Time Totals (in Hours)
*Partial Information for these years






Bike Run Swim Walk Weights Kayak Grand Total
2004* 59:53:00 17:51:50 14:11:35
16:05:00 108:01:25
2005 53:24:00 52:04:00 14:31:00 149:55:00 8:18:00 278:12:00
2006 50:06:00 78:20:47 6:44:00 227:49:00 54:39:00 417:38:47
2007 46:57:05 99:22:26 17:41:00 236:38:00 101:59:05 502:37:36
2008 212:09:59 97:11:04 50:43:28 39:20:53 11:48:00 411:13:24
2009* 44:44:09 16:52:28 3:46:06 17:35:00 5:20:00 88:17:43
2010 42:30:32 115:58:45 8:32:54 159:34:00 50:35:00 377:11:11
2011 159:04:55 178:19:55 4:40:00 172:42:00 67:53:00 33:58:00 616:37:50
2012 164:46:00 138:00:40 1:55:00 242:04:00 65:25:00 31:55:00 644:05:40
2013* 16:30:00 26:10:00 74:10:00 53:00:00 1:45:00 171:35:00
2014 19:49:00 91:47:55 122:14:00 73:40:00 4:30:00 312:01:55
2015 58:38:00 54:11:00 313:31:00 45:25:00 471:45:00
2016 148:51:00 69:22:00 204:17:00 33:18:00 2:40:00 458:28:00

It's a ritual at the end of each year to add up all my exercise totals and see how I compare to myself of previous years.  Sometimes it don't fit into a category (random rollarblading, for example).  Weight training doesn't lend itself to distance very well either.    Obviously I'm not trying to outdo myself each year, nor would that be healthy or possible for too many years in a row.    But I do get a sense of how fast and far I go, broken down into pretty little graphs like this:












I can also break my training down by week inside my excel spreadsheet to know how consistent I am during the year.   Obviously could create any categories you wanted to...Zumba, Yoga, whatever.  Or Zother...which means everything I do except Run, Walk, Bike or Kayak, which is mostly time spent in the gym but occasionally rock climbing or rollerblading.





Seeing my low running totals for 2016 and the fact that I only completed one run of a marathon or longer this year, I am setting a goal of 1000 running miles for 2017.  This perhaps is partially inspired by the UK Ultrarunning magazine's post about challenging yourself to this distance.   http://www.trailrunningmag.co.uk/run1000miles/

I've officially signed up, and I'll try to average 2.7 miles per day for the rest of 2017 :)     I wish that New Year's Revolution Run had actually been on Jan 1 so I'd be ahead of schedule...as it is I'm in recovery from that race and I'll have to make up some ground this month.  

Check back in a year to see if I make it!

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