What did you log this year?

[tribogota]

I figure since we are winding down the year, we could have some numbers fun and see what we have done!

So, what did you log this year?

I did 3 sprint tris, 3 olys, 1 HIM
= 8650 Meters of swimming/ 270k biking / 65k running.
a total of 21 hours racing

Trained 30 weeks this year so far (by december I will have trained 40 total, 12 weeks off here and there).
have done 297 hours so far this year, an average of 594 minutes per week.

and at my work they wonder why I haven't published an article this year.....

[zia]

All my mileage is logged on the inside of my cupboard, on little calendar. I keep meaning to transfer it to logmyrun.com, but... never quite get around to it.

I did 3 tris: 2 sprint, 1 Olympic. I did 2 road races: a 5K and a 10K. I made wonderful new friends and saw some beautiful sunrises and moonsets while swimming across Walden Pond. This was my first triathlon season and I am transformed, a different person than I last December -- I didn't expect that!

So much for numbers!

[HillSlugger]

As far as races go it was not a great year overall. I started out with a 5k in April where I set a PB and then had a good sprint tri in May but then it all went down hill from there with a heel injury that messed up my running, a tri that got turned into a du. In September I was supposed to do my first Oly tri but I couldn't run so I had to quit after the bike. On the up side, I'm on track for 2500miles biked and 200,000meters swam.

[colby]

I didn't clock my training during the summer, but Ironman was 12-15 hours a week for 6 months. I think the rest of the time it was more like 6-12 hours a week. I'm somewhat afraid to add that up

I raced:
1 x Ironman: 2.4 mi / 112 mi / 26.2mi (about 15 hours)
4 x Sprint: .5 mi / 12 mi / 3.1 mi = 2 mi / 48 mi / 12.4 mi (about 6 hours)
2 x Olympic: .9 mi / 25 mi / 6.2 mi = 1.8 mi / 50 mi / 12.4 mi (about 6 hours)

For a total of...
6.2 mi swimming (9.9km)
210 mi biking (337km)
51 mi running (82km)

Something like 27 hours racing. Wow!

ETA: Oh, I did race a 12k (about 1:05) and a half marathon (about 2:15) in the process, which takes me over 30 hours. Yeesh. I also did "homegrown" sprint/olympic/half-iron "races". I don't usually count them

[Grog]

I stopped the clock this year. I no longer do triathlon (only did two, in fact) but I run and ride, race running events (10K, half-marathon) at 3-5 times a year, and used to log my mileage religiously.

Sometime in the spring, I stopped.

I don't even put stickers on the calendar anymore.

I have not significantly improved in speed or anything this year, but I've enjoyed every run and every ride and that was enough for me. We live stressful lives, full of measures and performance assessment all the time, so I've decided I could let that kind of logging slip away.

I might change my mind. I might return to a hand-written log, or to the stickers-on-the-calendar, but I don't think I'm going to compute anything for the time being.

Forgive the near-thread-hijacking. I just thought I'd provide a different perspective. Enjoy!

[divingbiker]

I'm with you, Grog. I did two sprint triathlons (one turned into a duathlon), several 5Ks, and a half marathon. Another half marathon is coming up in three weeks.

I stopped logging my bike miles this year, and I've never logged swimming or running miles. That would take all the fun out of it.

[kacie tri-ing]

Year to Date 2009 ATP -10/26/2009

Actual Time 318:04
Swim 100095.58 yd
Bike 1709.62 mi
Run 466.65 mi
Race 175.65 mi


This is what my training peaks says. I did a marathon, two half ironman races, one sprint, a 5 mile race, one 5K so far, (and a 5K swim), and planning on another 5K, 15K, and half marathon this year. I also got injured, and spent many many hours in April through July in physical therapy instead of training :-( I did enjoy looking at the "year to date graphs." It is certainly interesting. Good thread

[tribogota]

I definitely don't think we should be measuring ourselves by our numbers, nor log stuff to the detriment of enjoying. I log my stuff just as a trivial activity while I am watching tv, gives me a fun list to make. I added everything up because it took me many many hours to proof read my book for work and wondered how many hours in a year I should/could be writing. Which got me over to triathlon, which interests me endlessly more than my job! So these are the numbers, but they certainly don't mean anything. They just mean 300hours of great motion!

and kacie tri those are some serious running miles, WOW!

[zia]

tribogota, I WISH I had a more accurate log of everything I've done. I'm envious. Sometimes, it's hard to see how all those little workouts (and days of rising at 5 am) add up to anything!

[kacie tri-ing]

They would have been much more serious if I had not spent 4 months in PT, and then rebuilding. I love running Of course, I have also posted about hating running. Clearly, running and I have a complicated relationship.

I do not track my numbers to be obsessive...I do it because it is how I communicate with my coach. I write my workout in Training Peaks, and my coach sees what I save. That way we have an easy back and forth conversation about my training, and he can let me know when I need to work harder or back off. It works well for me

I can also see how it can be more fun than proofing a book!!! I would prefer to log numbers any day if that were my option!

Great job everyone (whether you chose to document is closely or not! This is what we do for fun, and we all see fun differently!).

[staceysue]

I didn't start bicycling again until pretty late this fall, and I was down with the flu for two weeks, but I'm proud to say I got about 250 miles in. Next year - it will be in the THOUSANDS!

[colby]

They would have been much more serious if I had not spent 4 months in PT, and then rebuilding. I love running Of course, I have also posted about hating running. Clearly, running and I have a complicated relationship.

Love/hate... such is life.

[HillSlugger]

They would have been much more serious if I had not spent 4 months in PT, and then rebuilding. I love running Of course, I have also posted about hating running. Clearly, running and I have a complicated relationship.

I do not track my numbers to be obsessive...I do it because it is how I communicate with my coach. I write my workout in Training Peaks, and my coach sees what I save. That way we have an easy back and forth conversation about my training, and he can let me know when I need to work harder or back off. It works well for me

I can also see how it can be more fun than proofing a book!!! I would prefer to log numbers any day if that were my option!

Great job everyone (whether you chose to document is closely or not! This is what we do for fun, and we all see fun differently!).

I track my numbers because I am obsessive.

Hi, I'm Nicole and I'm a data junkie!

(I've been in PT for the last 2 months and haven't run since July)

[katluvr]

So is this 2009?
Let me see if I can remember what I did.
I have no log of all my training time/miles/meters/etc.

1/2 marthon Feb---very slow walk/run w/ a friend.
1/2 marathon March--2:20 (not a PR, but best time for that particular race)
MS 150 ride in Texas (April)---but only did one day d/t teh rain cancelling 1st day. Who knows how many training miles (probably not enough!)
MS 150 ride in Florida (May)--150 miles/2 days. FUNE
Sprint tri (my first) in August--started swimming (yippee) Training distances ???? I was not good at logging at all.

Now I am dutifully logging my training miles for my Marathon.

Is the next thread everyone's 2010 goals/plans??

[Zen]

I don't know and I don't care.
My cycling isn't about numbers, it's about experiences.