My race season for 2014 began in Central Park with a Half Marathon back in February and fittingly enough it will end there in two weeks with the Frozen Bonsai Half Marathon!
In between there has been: the Run for the Border Half (which was shortened to a 10 miler due to weather conditions) Mar 30; the 500 Festival Mini Marathon in Indianapolis Mini (that Shelley walked with me) May 4; then the Girls on the Run 5K in Rutland; then the Shipyard Old Port Half in Portland, ME July 13; next a return to the Maple Leaf Half in Manchester Center/Manchester, VT Sept. 6; followed that month with the Komen VT Race for the Cure 5K; and then my 4th Wineglass Half Marathon Oct. 5 and a week later the Westchester Running Festival Half Marathon on the Bronx River Parkway in white Plains, NY (with Nancy Lundebjerg, her first ever Half!) Oct. 12; then a bit of a lull leading up to GO HARD (Hug a Runner Day) - virtual 5K (walked/ran 3 times!); and as of this writing there's the Jingle Bell 5K Colonie, NY Dec 6 and finally the Frozen Bonsai in Central Park Dec.14.
That's a lot of miles in races (120.3) ! And a whole lotta miles in practice (around 300) ! Like the ones on Overlook Road and Windhill Roads in Manchester and the ones down and back on the North Pawlet-Wells Road !
I wonder if I walked another 80 or so miles during the year that are unaccounted for? Then I would have walked/ran 500 miles this year. At a pace of 15 minutes a mile that would be 7,500 minutes spent on roads! That's 125 hours.
Based on my marathon experiences (timing), that comes out to doing like 19 marathons this year.
Enough said!
Here's to the new year! I am signed up for the Lost Dutchman Half Marathon in February in Apache Jct., AZ where I'll meet up with trainer Lynn Grieger and her Back of the Pack ladies; the 500 Festival Mini-Marathon in Indianapolis the first weekend of May (with Shelley!); likely doing the Shipyard Old Port Half in Portland, ME July, as well as the Maple Leaf Half here at home in Vermont and the Wineglass Half Marathon out by my sister's in the Finger Lakes.
I am signed up for the Zooma Cape Cod 10K Sept. 26 (gotta do this one for sure in 2015) ... and thinking about Zooma in Annapolis May 30 (one way to go see Lynda, and maybe Sandy!).
Oh, then there's the Run for the Border back in NH on March 29 (I'd like to do the Half for real this time!) and a race called the Moose is Loose in NH on April 12th (which is my running group's culminating Half Marathon race).
There'll be the GOTR 5K race with school children and of course the Komen VT 5K.
And as promised I need to save a weekend in December for the It's A Wonderful Life 5K in Seneca Falls with Diane Harris!
As we are approaching Dec. 1st ... Is it too early for a New Year's Resolution? 'Cause I'm thinking I really need to check in here more often because as you can tell it really is about "more than a medal".
Stay tuned.
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