2011 in Review

Another year of dogs, triathlon and life is in the books!  I could spend all day writing a recap and still miss something but the highlights are captured throughout this blog anyway.  I'm hoping to have a better New Years Eve than last year (where the neighbors tried to blow up the neighborhood with sheer quantity of illegal fireworks) and am spending it in a hotel room with the beardies, while we do an agility trial in Los Angeles this weekend.  With any luck, the lack of houses around here will mean minimal fireworks and the sounds of I-405 rolling by all night will drown them out.


To continue the trend of recapping the year's mileage, I made a pretty little table this year to summarize everything and compare to past years.  I started running in November 2005 and so 2005-2006 were run-only years for me...2007 was the year I got the bright idea to do a triathlon to celebrate my wedding and the rest is history.... This time around I added what my main races for the year were, I think that helps explain the mileage better.

Year	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Main Races	Two marathons,         two 1/2marathons,          five sprint tris	One marathon,        one 1/2marathon, three sprint tris, one Olympic tri,       one 1/2IM	Two sprint tris, two 1/2IM,      one IM	Four 5ks, one 10k, four sprint tris, two Olympic tris, one 1/2IM	One duathlon, three Olympic tris, one 1/2IM,      one IM
Swim (yards)	70795	143880	262170	250835	316589
Swim (miles)	40.22	81.75	148.95	142.52	181.95
Bike (miles)	1436.6	2247.5	3430.5	2293.1	3608.8
Run (miles)	806.23	735.4	741.4	701.2	827.12
Strength (hours)	0	11.75	15.75	25.5	21.33
Total Time (hours)	287.6	385.3	490.5	308.5	532.77

2012 brings a lot of exciting things...a bunch of new fun races (I LOVE to race!), a road trip to Canada, a boatload of dog activities (agility with Stanley, the show ring with Puck, nose work with all 3 dogs) including the beardie National here in California, hockey hockey hockey, and plenty of good times with those I love.  


I wish you all a happy new year and hope this year is a glorious, happy and successful one!!!