What did you log this year?

[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!