Okay, for the month of November I only ran 39 miles. Ugh! But to defend myself I should tell you that I am now training for my first triathalon sprint and have been swimming a lot, so that takes up my workout time so I don't have a lot of time to run. Am I forgiven?
My year to date total is 378.41 miles. This is a far reach from my goal of 500 miles in a year. I was getting down about this and how badly I have failed. Knowing full well that I couldn't possibly run 121.59 miles in one month! Ha! Then I realized that I have had a LOT of health issues this past year (go figure, make a huge goal and then have major health issues!) With the 3 surgeries and "procedures" I have had, I wasn't "allowed" (or, to be honest, really wasn't able) to run for a total of 12 weeks this year. More if you count the 1-3 days after other smaller "procedures" that I had to be out, and even more if you counted all the days I was sick or in too much pain to run. But we won't count those because everyone gets sick. So I decided to make myself feel better by doing this...
See if you can follow my math!
Goal = 500 miles in 52 weeks (1 year)
Averages to 9.2 miles/week
52 weeks (in a year) - 12 weeks (medical leave) = 40 weeks of actually being able to run.
40 weeks x 9.2 miles = 384 miles (my NEW goal for the year!)
384 miles - 378 miles (my current milage) = 6 miles remaining!
In that case I already exceeded my goal!!! (I have ran 18 miles so far this month!) Hee hee! I didn't realize I liked math so much! LOL! Okay, I feel much better.
No comments:
Post a Comment