Start time: 12/15/12, 7:00am
Location: National Mall, Capitol Hill
Distance: 10 miles
Average pace: 10:34min/mile
Total Miles For December: 55 miles
Total Miles For 2012: 626 miles
Current Shoes: 166 miles

Just realized I never added Saturday’s run, which was pretty basic; ran 6 miles with Ben, John, and Stephanie (past the Christmas trees on the Ellipse then down to Rock Creek and back), then another 4 miles with Ben and John through Capitol Hill to Lincoln Park and back. Ben and John (and Steve who was out of town) are now in taper mode for their marathon, which is nice for those of us not about to run a 26.2 mile race…

On an unrelated note, here are some end of the year mileage tallies from past couple of years:

2011: 743 miles
2010: 635 miles
2009: 867 miles

With the stress fracture grounding me for three months, the drop-off in 2012 is unsurprising. (Although I should still clear 2010’s total with no problem.) If anything I’m impressed I still got as much as I did this year between three months of no running and then a slow reintroduction into running.

2009 surprised me until I remembered that it was the year where I not only ran 2 marathons (Potomac River Run in May, NYC in November) but also was training for the Goofy Marathon and a Half a week and a half into January 2010. That makes me tired just thinking about it.