Year in Review

Well, as the year draws to a close, its time to look back.  It has definitely been one hell of a year!  Lets look at the Annual Mileage:



According to Daily Mile - 352 miles is what I ran this year.  I don't think that is all that bad considering over 6 months of that was spent NOT running!  I do have to admit, my goal was a bit.. higher.  Since I am both starting and ending the year able to run, I'm not going to spend any time complaining about the mileage in the middle!

[caption id="attachment_1056" align="alignleft" width="176"] Running in the cold![/caption]

January - Probably the most remarkable aspect of the year's beginning - is I ran outside!  No treadmill, just the road, layers of clothes and me.  In the interest of Honesty, I do have to admit that my first run of the year in upstate NY was 50 degrees...  Mother nature made up for it, with my 12 degree run 3 days later...  I also got my fantastic Angry Birds hat.   I logged 46 miles.

Is it getting hot in here?

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So, "the plan" had a 3 mile run scheduled for yesterday.  Brought my kids to the "what to do if you are on the Titanic" class, and headed out to run.

It was hot.  Now I know there are people in Texas and Arizona where it is hotter than here.  I live in upstate NY. Now, when people think of upstate NY two things come to mind - Wine and Snow.  Now you don't go running in Wine - which means the Snow must be the word people think of related to weather here.  It was 92 degrees. NINETY TWO!!! Plus humidity! In Upstate NY!!!!!