This is more a mental note for myself, but you might also find it interesting.
Number of posts: 110 ( 102 in year 2, 156 in year 1 – I’ll report the figures this way around below to make it easy to see any progression)
Number of runs: 92 (63, 67) although to be fair I did lots of short ‘day-after’ runs this year
Mileage: 726 (538, 512) due largely to the training for the marathon
Hours spent running: 113 (84, 87)
Average run: 7.89 miles in 1.24 (8.14 in 1.20, 8.07 in 1.31). The short day-after runs have carried the average distance down
Average speed: 6.38mph (6.05, 6.15) which is surprising as in the main I was focussing on distance rather than speed
Average minutes per mile: 9.4 (9.9, 9.65)
Worst month distance: 10.4 in May (13.6 Jan 09, 22.3 Feb 08). I was away for a month from 10th May this year
Best month distance: 157 in March (62 Apr 09, 68 Nov 07). This was in the lead up to the marathon
Total mileage to date since start of blog: 1776 miles
Time spent running since start of blog: 285 hours
Visitors according to Clustermaps: 1479 (the dates don’t match up but the numbers are roughly 1496 for year 2 and 2906 for year 1, the first year being higher as a by-product of my work with Qype.com)
From number of countries: 38 (as above) Bizarrely, the old davidjfoster.info/runs site has received 590 visitors from 47 countries since October 2009, even though I’ve not posted there at all! I think it’s time to re-direct them!
All in all, a really most enjoyable year for me and I hope that you have also enjoyed sharing the experience, albeit vicariously! My sincere thanks to you for reading and to all those people with whom I have run this year… you’re all FAB!