Stats

From June onwards I have been following a training programme for my running...here are some stats for those of you who love to geek out on such things:

Totals for the year: 


Running: 1470.05km in 200hrs and 2mins with 33,092m ascent. 
Cycling (mostly turbo sessions) for 24hrs 50mins. 
Walking (only logged ones, there's loads more) 219km in 81hrs 23mins. 

I make that 306hrs 15mins of exercise (+ numerous unlogged hours). 


...and here's a table showing my running stats from Garmin:

Month	Count	Distance (km)	Time	Elevation Gain (m)	Avg Speed	Avg HR	Max HR
January	9	81.42	12:23:16	2528	6.6	157	181
February	7	49.91	07:50:31	1380	6.4	150	180
March	14	126.98	18:11:34	2401	7.6	152	184
April	10	100.93	14:12:24	3111	7.1	151	183
May	19	117.12	20:45:01	3726	5.6	146	185
June	25	178.55	23:44:18	3432	7.5	142	178
July	20	189.34	23:34:39	3416	8	144	173
August	15	105.53	13:15:21	1799	8	145	168
September	21	186.97	23:18:21	4150	8	148	178
October	22	157.8	19:56:04	3743	7.9	142	185
November	9	51.78	05:56:14	788	8.7	153	176
December	15	123.73	16:55:04	2620	7.3	147	178
TOTAL	186	1470.06	200:02:47	33094

There have been a couple of blips along the way. Ones of note are that in July I tweaked my left knee and in October I tweaked my right knee. At the end of July/early August I was in London at the Olympics and training obviously dropped off due to a combination of long days and general tiredness. In November my knee issue pretty much wiped me out. With rehab and lots of massage/foam rollering I took the option to rest and have a recovery period. It worked, because in December I was feeling strong for the first three weeks, then the lurgy struck which seems to have been affecting all around me - nothing significant but enough to cause me to slow down. Then with Christmas and visitors etc a few runs were missed. 

Lots of water flowing out of Bottoms Reservoir on 30 December run from Glossop to Tintwistle - the fields were very soggy

It's good having stats and a diary to look back over. I can see from my weekly totals that a good total weekly distance for me is between 40km-50km. Both times I've been around, or gone over 60km has been immediately prior to one of my knee tweaks. So my decision for 2013 is to not only be consistent with my training, but to keep a watchful eye on the weekly totals. It's really tempting to get out on the hills at the weekends for 3hrs+, but if that is going to push me over what seems to be a sustainable total distance it's just not worth it. Either that, or I'll cut back during the week to allow myself more distance on a long weekend run.