The beginning of 2018 was great, running-wise! I trained for a 5K PR and missed it by three seconds on a 16 degree day in April. I switched from 5K training to a month of half marathon focused training and PR’d at the Wisconsin Half Marathon in May (on my ten-year anniversary of running the race each year since the inaugural!). I moved from half marathon to marathon training and ran my highest mileage month in May – 243.2 miles – only to crash (literally) and burn (not literally) at Grandma’s Marathon in June.
I took it easy after that. Fun rides with friends and family, and fun races with friends (human and horse, ha). We’ve been socially busy the last few months of the year and I’ve chosen not to work out and race as much.
I don’t have much on schedule for 2019. Right now, I am NOT planning to run the Frosty Footrace 5K in February. I’m signed up for the Wisconsin Half Marathon, but it’s the same day as Luca’s First Communion, so I may DNS and go to that instead. There is a family wedding the day I typically ride RAGBRAI, but I plan to skip the wedding and still ride, if the course is someplace I can get to. We shall see how the year unfolds!
If you would like to fill out your own 2018 Racing Statistics in the comments or on your own blog, I created a google doc here for you to copy and fill out/edit!
You can see 2012 here, 2013 here, 2014 here, 2015 here, 2016 here, and 2017 here. You can always find my race stats here.
I love this! Infographics are so fun to look at. For a split second I was all “which race did I run with Kim?” Derp. It was beanzie! That stinks you have a lot of conflict for next year’s events. Ragbrai looks so awesome, I hope to do it someday.
You had a great 2018! Hope we can do something together again in 2019!
Thanks! I think they are fun too!
BEANZIE!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL, there is a character called that on The Sopranos (which we are watching now) and I think of you when he is mentioned.
I hope you get to do RAGBRAI. It’s awesome!
Thanks, I know we will!!!
Yay! I love this post!
I had forgotten it was so cold for your 5K PR attempt! And that it was that cold in April, period. Guess I tried to block the memory, haha.
I appreciate the “races done in matchy outfits with friends” line item, hahaha. A very important statistic to document!
Thank you!
April was such a crappy month with the weather! Of course, and you’ve heard me say this, that was the April 18th snow storm where I crashed my car on 294 :-/
So important! Ha!