2012 Year End Review

2012 Year End Review

Past Year End Reviews
2011 Year End Review
2010 Year End Review

About this time every year I like to look back on what I have accomplished athletically because it is so easy for me to forget. 

At the beginning of 2009 I could not run to the car (nor would I have wanted to).  I hated running.  I thought a 10 mile bike ride was REALLY long.  Swimming over a mile was only for escaping Alcatraz prisoners (and impossible).  I was never been an athletically gifted person.  It is amazing at what I have done in a few short years. 

In 3.5 past years I have completed:

• 18  Half marathons
• 8    Half Ironmans
• 103 Laps a Lucky's Lake Open Water Swim (103 km)
• 1    Century Cycling Race
• 2    Metric Century Cycling Races
• 1    Ultra marathon (30 miles)
• 1    30K run (15 miles)
• 4    Olympic Triathlons
• 10  5K, 10K, 15K runs (217 miles total)
• 1    Sprint Triathlons
• Lost 37 lbs - Burned 129,500 calories (647.5 Krispy Kreme Glazed Donuts)
• Blog had a world record number of spelling errors and grammar issues.

If my math is right that means in 3.5 years of ONLY races (not including training) I have done the following:

• 77.8 Miles Swimming
• 823.6 Miles Cycling
• 630.5 Miles Running

That is a 1531.85 mile triathlon in races.  That's half the distance across the United States (from Maine to California).  I now am going to call myself a Half Amerithoner. :-) 

This year I completed:

• 4 Half Ironmans
• 4 Half Marathons
• Ran an average of 20 miles every week
• Swam an average of 90 minutes a week
• Biked an average of 60 miles a week 
• I now weigh the same as when I left high school in mid 1990's!!