A look back at 2008

A quick summary of my running for 2008. It was an epic year for me with the most training miles ever and the completion of the Burning River 100 mile trail run.

A quick summary of my monthly run miles and highlights:

• Jan - 148 - Winter BT50K pr 6:05
• Feb - 136.3
• Mar - 159.05
• Apr - 126.9 - Fools FA 41 miles total for the day and then recovering for the rest of the month from an over-use injury...
• May - 163.15
• Jun - 153.3 - Vacation in the Adirondack and my trail run with a Black Bear!
• Jul - 161.1 - Final push for Burning River
• Aug - 136.8 - The race! 102 miles was the race itself!!!
• Sep - 77.2 - recovery
  
• Oct - 66.5 - no motivation
• Nov - 133.05 - Oops! I had better start training for the 2009 Winter BT50K!
• Dec - 120.4 - struggling with consistency

1581.75 miles total. Biggest week was 60 miles and longest run, besides the race, was 41 miles.

I wanted to run more but I was not able to fit the miles/time into general life. This caused a fair amount of anxiety on my part before the race, but it turned out to be a lot of worry for nothing...
Keeping the long runs going as many weekends as possible was the key for me.

2009 Events: (Subject to change at any time!)

• Jan - Winter BT50K
• Apr - Forget the PR 50K at Mohican
• Jun? - Mohican 50 mile
• Sep - Run with Scissors Double Marathon
• All year: Do whatever I can to help JP get across the finish line at Burning River 100 in August.

I hope that everyone has a great 2009. The current economic situation will ensure that this year will be 'interesting', but keep focused on the important things in life (family and health) and the rest is just noise!