Start time: 12/31/05, 8:00am
Location: W&OD Trail
Distance: 10 miles
Run:Walk ratio: 5:1
Average pace: 10:45min/mile

Another Saturday morning run… the last one of the year. It was a bit rough; Mark took the lead and was hitting 10:30s and 10:15s for the first four miles, which was clearly killing some people in the group. I offered up several times, “Uh, Mark, you’re losing the group” and he would slow down briefly and then rev back up. Julie finally quit after four miles, and after mile five, Chanty and I moved to the front of the group and reset the pace. Chanty and John were both having problems with the faster pace, and even Craig did not look terribly happy. Once we were in the front (and credit where it’s due, Chanty was doing the best job of setting an 11min pace) it seemed to work better for everyone. Chanty and I stopped after ten miles, and the remaining three guys looked like death warmed over. Mark wanted to run 14 for his marathon training, but I’ve got nothing to prove so we waved goodbye and sent them on their way. If I hear about corpses on the side of the W&OD I’ll know what happened next.

This is the first year that I’ve tracked my milage for all 12 months instead of just the “marathon training” ones, so I don’t have complete data to compare against past years. Here, however, is a ranking of mileage for the year. (Some of the strange mileage is from running 1.25 mile loops, plus some 5K and 10K races thrown in for good measure.)

November: 25.3
March: 37.45
February: 38.5
January: 42.45
April: 52.2
July: 65.5
December: 66
May: 68.3
June: 76
September: 76
August: 88
October: 103.2
TOTAL: 732.9

That October figure is still blowing my mind; my previous high was October 2004 with 91.95. Crazy!

Aaaaand, that’s a wrap. Onto 2006!