YES indeedie, two years have passed since I started writing this blog and if you’ve been reading it all this time, you probably deserve a drink! To celebrate, of course!
Without the enigmatic Bok to keep me going through the winter, my results have been down on the first year, but only a touch. In fact, I have been surprisingly consistent.
A quick run down on the comparisons show the following:
Writing is down from 156 to 102 posts, reducing the weekly average from 3 to 2, but then the first year there were a series of posts about films (we’ve not been going so often) and about the building of the tea-house.
Total mileage is also down, but only from 538 miles to 512, a reduction of just 2 miles per month… but WOW, that makes over 1050 miles in the last two years! And if you take out all the time in between (that I was probably sitting down) it only took me 172 hours… a little over a week!
The slackest months were January 09 with 13.6 miles and February 09 with 14.3 miles compared to 22.3 miles in February 08 but, in my defence, I did do quite a lot of swimming in that period this year whereas last year we were away ice driving and skiing.
There were five months this year that I ran more than 50 miles (plus one at 49.3) compared to 4 the year before, but the best I managed was 62.75, where there were 3 over 66 miles last year.
Overall my average run was 8.14 miles in a time of 1 hour 20 minutes… just over 6mph, and 0.1mph slower year on year. Of course what the figures don’t show is that I have been tackling more challenging runs. For example, more than half of the difference in the average speed is accounted for by just one run: The Blighty Grouse Grind on the 26th July.
Since I have not replaced my splodge since the beginning of July last year, I thought today would be an appropriate day to visit Kurt at Run in Hove. And as you can see, I now have a bright and shiny new pair of Saucony runners to add to the other four pairs I have bought from Run (and then slowly destroyed) in the last five or six years.
So another great big THANK YOU to all the readers of FosterRuns.com, especially the people who have made hilarious comments and the myriad of amazing folk who have allowed me to run with them. I sincerely hope that you will continue to both read and run with me as we sprint, energenetically, into year three!
Congrats. Keep it up, it’s fun!